carrot

From Middle French carotte, from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte. Displaced native more, from Old English moru.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

• (General American) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/; enPR: kĕr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/

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• Rhymes: -æɹət
• Homophones: carat, karat
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• Hyphenation: car‧rot

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots.

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3. Any motivational tool.

• Queen Anne's lace

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted)

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

• trocar