Definitions for carrot

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carrot car·rot

Spelling: [kar-uh t]

IPA: /ˈkær ət/

Carrot is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in carrot (acorrt).

Definitions for carrot

noun

1. 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.
2. the nutritious, orange to yellow root of this plant, eaten raw or cooked.
3. something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive: Compare stick1 (def 8).

verb (used with object)

1. to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting.

Origin of carrot

1525-35; Middle French carotte Late Latin carōta Greek karōtón, derivative of kárē head, with suffix as in kephalōtón onion, derivative of kephalḗ head

Examples for carrot

Then, as Madame Francois turned her head away, he put the carrot to his mouth.

He answered her in a voice that was flat and plain, like the voice that a carrot might have.

Chop up a stick of celery, a sprig of parsley, a carrot, an onion.

Our agriculture is precarious, and 27 every carrot is bought by the sweat of our brow.

Use that minute to peel the onion and carrot, and wash your celery.

Assad has been offered safe passage to a third country as a carrot for handing over power.

Study participants who were themselves overweight viewed stick—but not carrot—policies as threatening.

After a while the boy got hungry and dug into his pocket for the carrot.

I had never craved a carrot before, or fantasized about raiding an apple tree in a nearby garden.

Widely, eagerly, he opened his mouth, to close his teeth upon—a carrot.