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carroty

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From carrot + -y.

  1. Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.

    The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled sun-burnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, […]

    "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.

  2. Containing carrots; made of carrots.

    My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.