English
carrot
Etymology

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν.

  • Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
  • Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.
Pronunciation
  • (RP) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA: /ˈkæɹ.ət/
  • (General American) enPR: kâr'ət, kĕr'ət IPA: /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
Noun

carrot

  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.
    Synonyms: more
  2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
     
  3. (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
    Coordinate term: stick
  4. (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
  5. (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
  6. (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person
Translations Translations Verb

carrot (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.


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