carrot
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ət noun
1.
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.
2.
the nutritious, orange to yellow root of this plant, eaten raw or cooked.
3.
something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive: To boost productivity, leaders hinted at the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers. Compare stick1 ( def 8 ).
verb (used with object)
4.
to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting.
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| —n | |
| 1. | See also wild carrot an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota sativa, with finely divided leaves and flat clusters of small white flowers |
| 2. | the long tapering orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable |
| 3. | a. something offered as a lure or incentive |
| b. carrot and stick reward and punishment as methods of persuasion | |
| [C16: from Old French carotte, from Late Latin carōta, from Greek karōton; perhaps related to Greek karē head] | |
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Word Origin & History
carrot
1533, from M.Fr. carrotte, from L. carota, from Gk. karoton "carrot," from PIE *kre-, from base *ker- "horn, head," so called for its horn-like shape. Planted as a garden vegetable by 1609 by Jamestown colonists.
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Example sentences
Roll the piece between your fingers to form a carrot shape.
Barrels of ink recounted all of the carrot and none of the stick.
They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot.
Production of carrot seeds is a two-year project making it much more difficult than seed production of annual crops.
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