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carrot
[kar-uht]
noun
a 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.
the nutritious, orange to yellow root of this plant, eaten raw or cooked.
something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive.
To boost productivity, leaders hinted at the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers.
verb (used with object)
to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting.
carrot
/ ˈæə /
noun
an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota sativa, with finely divided leaves and flat clusters of small white flowers See also wild carrot
the long tapering orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable
something offered as a lure or incentive
reward and punishment as methods of persuasion
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of carrot1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of carrot1
Example Sentences
This could involve allocating food into 10kg trays or sorting through "huge amounts of apples or carrots", she added.
It became the people’s dressing: a dunk for baby carrots, a drizzle for pizza, equally at home next to a pile of atomic-red buffalo wings or a crisp wedge.
A spiced lettuce cake caught my eye for a moment, mostly because the author made a fair point: If we’ve accepted zucchini bread and carrot cake into the canon, why not lettuce?
So when they came dangling the carrot for people to reup after Season 6, I was like, “I’m curious to see what else the universe has in store.”
It’s not always “cool” to eat a bag of carrots.
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