| Title: | Radish |
| Original Title: | Radis |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 13 (1765), p. 753 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Subject terms: |
Gardening
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| Citation (MLA): | "Radish." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.332>. Trans. of "Radis," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 13. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Radish." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.332 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Radis," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 13:753 (Paris, 1765). |
Radish, Raphanus. A plant which grows to one or two feet and has broad, deeply-lobed leaves resembling those of rape. Each flower has four purplish petals which form a cross and become a beaked, spongy fruit enclosing bitter, red seeds. The edible taproot is shaped like a turnip but is rounder. It has a pleasant, biting flavour.
Raphanus rusticanus, which is known as ‘cram’ in England, is a plant which Tournefort has classified as a species of Cochealaria [ sic ]. [1] It has an edible root.
Notes
1. Pitton de Tournefort, 1700. This is Armoracia rusticana, or horse radish, which is synonymous with Cochlearia armoracia (Huxley et al., 1992, i.239, 664).