carrot

Definition of Carrot in English :

Noun

1. carrot

deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

2. carrot, cultivated carrot, daucus carota sativa

perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions

3. carrot

orange root; important source of carotene

4. carrot

promise of reward as in

Example Sentences:
'carrot and stick'
'used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Carrot

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noun

1.

an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota sativa, with finely divided leaves and flat clusters of small white flowers

Carrot

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noun

1.

a biennial plant (Daucus carota) of the umbel family, with fernlike leaves and compound umbels of white flowers, usually with one red flower in the center: only the cultivated variety is edible

2.

the fleshy, orange-red root of the cultivated strain of this plant (var. sativa), eaten as a vegetable

3.

something offered as a tantalizing but deceptive inducement, like a carrot dangled before a donkey's nose

Carrot

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n.

1. A biennial Eurasian plant (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) in the parsley family, widely cultivated as an annual for its edible taproot.

2. The usually tapering, elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

3. Queen Anne's lace.

4. A reward offered for desired behavior; an inducement: "The U.S. should use a moratorium on SDI development as a carrot to bring an acceptable offensive arms limitation" (C. Peter Gall).

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