ALL meanings of carrot
car·rot
C c - variable noun carrot Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground. 3
- countable noun carrot Something that is offered to people in order to persuade them to do something can be referred to as a carrot. Something that is meant to persuade people not to do something can be referred to in the same sentence as a 'stick'. 3
- noun carrot an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota sativa, with finely divided leaves and flat clusters of small white flowers 3
- noun carrot the long tapering orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable 3
- noun carrot a biennial plant (Daucus carota) of the umbel family, with fernlike leaves and compound umbels of white flowers, usually with one red flower in the center: only the cultivated variety is edible 3
- noun carrot the fleshy, orange-red root of the cultivated strain of this plant (var. sativa), eaten as a vegetable 3
- noun carrot something offered as a tantalizing but deceptive inducement, like a carrot dangled before a donkey's nose 3
- noun carrot Carrots are long, thin, orange-colored vegetables. 3
- noun carrot 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. 1
- noun carrot the nutritious, orange to yellow root of this plant, eaten raw or cooked. 1
- noun carrot 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). 1
- verb with object carrot to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting. 1
- noun carrot vegetable 1
- noun carrot incentive 1
- noun carrot plant 1
- noun carrot A tapering orange-colored root eaten as a vegetable. 1
- noun carrot A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. 0
- noun carrot A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots. 0
- noun carrot A motivational tool. 0