carrot

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  1. noun A biennial Eurasian plant (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) in the parsley family, widely cultivated as an annual for its edible taproot.
  2. noun The usually tapering, elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  3. noun Queen Anne's lace.
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  • Not to say that a carrot is all bad if it makes a donkey go faster —  Giddy Tigers
  • And a carrot is a delicious root vegetable, usually orange, loved by rabbits. —  Charlottesville Blogs
  • Whereas to pick an apple off a tree or eat some grain or a carrot is a natural thing to do; people enjoy doing it; they don't feel disturbed by it. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • Because … interstellar travel via carrot is a pretty stellar concept. —  SplitReason.com blog
  • The bunny and the sheep will eat the cabbage or the carrot, the lion and the tiger will eat the bunny or the sheep, and the lion will fight the tiger. —  LearnHub Activities
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  1. French carotte, from Old French garroite, from Latin carōta, from Greek karōton; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also carot, carote; = German carotte, karotte, from French carote, now carotte = Italian carota, from Latin carota, prob. from Greek καρωτόν, a carrot.
  2. from carrot, n., the oil of carrot being one of the preparations used for this purpose.
 

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/ˈkærət/
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