carrot

CEFRA1

/ˈkæɹət/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    A long orange root vegetable.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

Examples

  • She has reddish hair, whence comes her nickname "Carrot".

  • Tom could hear Mary crunching on a carrot.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.

  2. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

More examples

In context

  • She cut off the carrot tops.

  • Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.

  • In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”). * Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. * Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.