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| car·rot [ kárrət ] (plural car·rots) |
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1. thin orange root vegetable: a thin tapering orange-colored root eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable
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2. plant with edible orange-colored root: a biennial plant that produces carrots. Latin name Daucus carota.
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3. plants
Same as Queen Anne's lace
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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.
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| [15th century. Via French< Latin carota< Greek karōton] |
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