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Carrot

//ˈkæɹ.ət// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. countable, uncountable

    "In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary."

  2. 2
    promise of reward as in ‘carrot and stick’ wordnet
  3. 3
    A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    orange root; important source of carotene wordnet
  5. 5
    Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots."

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  1. 6
    perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions wordnet
  2. 7
    Someone from a rural background. UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
  3. 8
    deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant wordnet
  4. 9
    A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London. UK, countable, slang, uncountable
  5. 10
    A redhead; a ginger-haired person countable, slang, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”). * Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. * Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Etymology 2

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”). * Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. * Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

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