carrot
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
Other meanings
A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
A kind of
- root
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "καρωτόν".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “carrot” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.