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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 orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
   - cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa
    
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"

Sounds like: carat, caret, karat

Derived forms: carrots

See also: carroty

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, reinforcement, reward, root, root vegetable

Part of: Daucus, genus Daucus

Encyclopedia: Carrot