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car⋅rot

  [kar-uht]
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–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 stick 1 (def. 8).
–verb (used with object)
4. to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting.
Origin:
1525–35; < MF carotte < LL carōta < Gk karōtón, deriv. of kárē head, with suffix as in kephalōtón onion, deriv. of kephal head
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car·rot   (kār'ət)   
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).


[French carotte, from Old French garroite, from Latin carōta, from Greek karōton; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: car·rot
Pronunciation: 'kar-&t
Function: noun
: a biennial plant of the genus Daucus (D. carota) that bears seeds whichhave been used especially as a diuretic and stimulant and that in cultivated varieties has a yellow or orange-red tapering root which is used as a vegetable; also : its root
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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