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- DictionaryCar·rot/ˈkerət/
noun
- 1. a tapering orange-colored root eaten as a vegetable: "roast lamb with peas and carrots"
- 2. the cultivated feathery-leaved plant of the parsley family that yields this vegetable.
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Definition of carrot noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
CARROT definition: 1. an orange-coloured vegetable that is long and thin and grows in the ground 2. something that is…. Learn more.
The carrot (pronounced CARE-ot) is a type of plant. Many different types exist. The Latin name of the plant is usually given as Daucus carota. The plant has an edible, orange root, and usually white flowers. Wild carrots grow naturally in Eurasia. Domesticated carrots are grown for food in many parts of the world.
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From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). 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”). 1. Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot ...
(Received Pronunciation) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/(General American) enPR: kâr'ət, kĕr'ət IPA(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/(Mary–marry–merry distinction)Rhymes: -æɹətcarrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots) 1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. 1.1. Synonym: (obsolete) more 2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). 2.1. carrot: 3. (figurati...
carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted) 1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of feltmanufacture.
carrot meaning, definition, what is carrot: a long pointed orange vegetable that gro...: Learn more.
Carrot - New World Encyclopedia. Next (Carsten Niebuhr) Carrot is a herbaceous root vegetable, Daucus carota subsp. sativus, in the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae), which also includes the similar parsnip.
car•rot (kar′ət), n. Plant Biologya plant, Daucus carota, of the parsley family, having pinnately decompound leaves and umbels of small white or yellow flowers, in its wild form a widespread, familiar weed, and in cultivation valued for its edible root. Plant Biologythe nutritious, orange to yellow root of this plant, eaten raw or cooked.
