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carrot

car·rot [ kárrət ] (plural car·rots)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. thin orange root vegetable: a thin tapering orange-colored root eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable

2. plant with edible orange-colored root: a biennial plant that produces carrots. Latin name Daucus carota.

3. plants 
Same as  Queen Anne's lace


4. incentive: something tempting, offered in order to persuade somebody to do something
They offer you the carrot of a year's free gasoline if you buy the car there and then.

[15th century. Via French< Latin carota< Greek karōton]

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