Carrot

Definition: Carrot

Carrot

Noun

1. Deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant.

2. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical deep-orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions.

3. Orange root; important source of carotene.

4. Promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"; "used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "carrot" was first used: 1533. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Carrot

Ornament

Smart, gay, trickly, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight, well-groomed.

Crosswords: Carrot

An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles (The Thing From Another World; writing credit: George A. Romero; John A. Russo)

It's an 18 carrot gold watch (Bandits; writing credit: Harley Peyton)

A side order consists of a white-meat tuna, a dollop of mayonnaise, some carrot strips and potato chips (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)

You can't dangle the bogus carrot of possible reconciliation in front of my face whilst riding some other donkey (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson)

14 Carrot Rabbit (1952)

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the 18 Carrot Mystery (1915)

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Books

• Bugs Bunny's Carrot Machine (reference)

• Carrot in My Pocket (reference)

• Carrot Top (reference)

• Carrot Tops Junk in the Trunk: Some Assembly Required (reference)

• Flaming Carrot, Volume 3: Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Welcome to Pia Carrot - Boxed Set (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 10 Carrot Diamond (reference)

• Cigarettes & Carrot Juice - The Santa Cruz Years [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Looney Tunes Carrot Craz (reference)

• Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Shown is the 5 A Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared in Washington D.C.'s Metrorail stations during September 1993. The ad has running figurines in the shapes of a banana, an orange juice box, a tomato, carrot and broccoli. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer).

Shown is a 5-A-Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared on metrobuses in the Washington D.C. area during September, 1993. The ad includes a running banana, orange juice box, tomoato, carrot and broccoli figurines. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer).

Soil Conservationist Gale Nobes with rye windstrips between carrot rows. Newaygo County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper.

Rye windstrips between carrot rows. Newaygo County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper.

Baby gardener in hat with carrot and hoe. Credit: Library of Congress.

Carrot and the stick. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lunch pail of family of Mexican carrot pickers, coats and straw for bunching carrots. Near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Carrot workers tying carrots into bunches in field near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Carrot digger. Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A package of carrot seeds and a few turnips

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Economic History

Guatemala

The largest seed importer is the vegetable sector, which includes sweet corn, beets, cauliflower, onion, pepper, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, radish, cucumber, lettuce, squash, tomato, and others. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "carrot": carrot family ♦ carrot fly ♦ carrot juice ♦ carrot or stick ♦ carrot pudding ♦ carrot stick ♦ cultivated carrot ♦ hold out a carrot to smb. ♦ moon carrot ♦ wild carrot. Additional references.

Beginning with "carrot": carrot-and-stick, carrot-and-stick policy, carrot-coloured, carrot-cum-stick, carrot-ground, carrot-haired, carrot-like, carrot-red, carrot-shaped, carrot-topped.

Ending with "carrot": stick-and-carrot.

Afrikaans

wortel (root). (various references)

Albanian

karotë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكافأة موعودة, ‏جزر نبات. (various references)

Asturian

zenahoria. (various references)

Bavarian

gäiweruam. (various references)

Blackfoot

niistsikápa's. (various references)

Bulgarian 

морков, примамка (allurement, decoy, draw, enticement, inducement, lure, snare). (various references)

Catalan

pastanaga. (various references)

Cebuano

karot. (various references)

Chinese 

红萝卜, 紅蘿蔔 . (various references)

Cornish

caretysen. (various references)

Czech

mrkev. (various references)

Danish

gulerod. (various references)

Dutch

wortel (root), peen. (various references)

Esperanto

karoto. (various references)

Faeroese

gularót. (various references)

Farsi 

موی قرمز, هویج , زردک مانند, زردک . (various references)

Finnish

porkkana. (various references)

French

carotte (carroty). (various references)

Frisian

woartel (root). (various references)

German

Möhre, Karotte, Mohrrübe, Rübe (beet, nob, noddle, pate, turnip). (various references)

Greek 

καρότο (core, sprue). (various references)

Hawaiian

karotë. (various references)

Hungarian

sárgarépa (carrots). (various references)

Indonesian

wortel. (various references)

Irish

cairéad, meacan dearg. (various references)

Italian

carota (core). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

人参 (ginseng). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にんじん (ginseng). (various references)

Korean 

당근. (various references)

Lombard

carotola. (various references)

Macedonian

morkov. (various references)

Manx

carradje. (various references)

Maori

kaareti. (various references)

Norwegian

gulrot. (various references)

Papiamen

karòt. (various references)

Pig Latin

arrotcay.(various references)

Portuguese

cenoura. (various references)

Provencal

pastenaga. (various references)

Romanian

morcov. (various references)

Romansch

risch melna. (various references)

Romany

morkoos. (various references)

Russian 

морковь морковный (carrion), морковь. (various references)

Samoan

karoti. (various references)

Scottish

curran, curral (a carrot, horse-panniers for heavy loads). (various references)

Sepedi

segwere. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

šargarepa. (various references)

Spanish

zanahoria. (various references)

Swedish

morot (sweetener). (various references)

Turkish

havuç. (various references)

Turkmen 

kдюir. (various references)

Ukrainian

руді люди, руде волосся, морква. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cây cà rốt, người tóc đỏ hoe. (various references)

Welsh

moronen. (various references)

Zulu

ilikherothi, ikherothi. (various references)

karoton. (various references)

DAUCUS CAROTA, Daucus carota l, Daucus carota spp.sativus, pastinaca. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "carrot": carrotier, carrotiest, carrotin, carrotins, carrots, carrottop, carrottopped, carrottops, carroty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Carrot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrorst, arrot, barrot, carboot, carit, carnot, caroa, caroo, carot, caroti, Caroto, Carow, carox, Carrad, carrat, Carratu, Carraz, carret, Carrett, carretta, carro, carron, Carroz, carrrot, cartop, Caruth, cerot, cerro, chabrot, cirro, corot, Corro, Darroch, Garroch, garrott, Karotu, karroo, Kurort, Mcgarrett, Sarrat, Sarratt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trocar.

-1 letter: actor, taroc.

-2 letters: arco, carr, cart, coat, orca, orra, rato, roar, rota, taco, taro, tora, torc, torr.

-3 letters: act, arc, art, car, cat, cor, cot, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, rat, roc, rot, tao, tar, tor.

-4 letters: ar, at, or, ta, to.

+1 letter: carport, carrots, carroty, creator, curator, reactor, tractor, trocars, trochar.

+2 letters: carports, carrotin, carryout, cavorter, contrary, creators, cremator, curators, motorcar, protract, reactors, redactor, retroact, tractors, traprock, trochars, turbocar, varactor.

+3 letters: attractor, carrotier, carrotins, carrottop, carryouts, cartopper, castrator, cavorters, cocreator, cocurator, copartner, cormorant, corporate, correlate, corrugate, costarred, courtyard, cremators, crematory, decorator, detractor, execrator, extractor, macerator, motorcars, oratrices, orchestra, overreact, precatory, procreant, procreate, protracts, raconteur, rectorate, rectorial, redactors, refractor, retractor, retroacts, retropack, traprocks, trochlear, turbocars, varactors.