carrot
noun
- root vegetable, usually orange in color
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹət/ / /ˈkɛɹət/
noun
Etymology: Inherited 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.
- A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
“In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.”
- A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
- Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
“Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.”
“In 2022, when the Biden administration finally succeeded in passing a major climate bill, it consisted almost entirely of carrots—tax credits and subsidies for green energy.”
- Someone from a rural background.
- A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
- A redhead; a ginger-haired person
verb
Etymology: Inherited 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.
- To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.