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noun
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: more
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noun
A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Someone from a rural background.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
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noun
A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A redhead; a ginger-haired person
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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verb
To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
promise of reward as in;
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: reward, reinforcement
noun
orange root; important source of carotene
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: root vegetable
noun
perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
noun
deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: root
History
Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”). * Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick. * Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.
Across languages
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