carrot

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carrot

/ˈkæɹət/ UK
/ˈkæɹət/ US
/ˈkɛɹət/
/ˈkæɹət/ Australia
/ˈkɛɹət/ New Zealand

Sounds like carat, karat, caret (weak vowel merger) · Rhymes with -æɹət

Where it comes from

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.

noun carrots

countable, uncountable A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
Similar: more
countable, uncountable A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
countable, figuratively, uncountable Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.
UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Someone from a rural background.
UK, countable, slang, uncountable A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
countable, slang, uncountable A redhead; a ginger-haired person

verb carrots · carroting · carroted

transitive To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cultivated carrot, core, sugar, stick, sausage, root, bait, stimulus, incentive, persuasion, reward, carota, daucus, genus daucus, inducement, enticement

Translations

Every language

noun Daucus carota ssp. sativus

Español	zanahoria
한국어	당근 danggeun, 홍당무 hongdangmu
日本語	ニンジン ninjin, 人参 ninjin
中文	胡蘿蔔 /胡萝卜 húluóbo, 紅蘿蔔 /红萝卜 hóngluóbo
हिन्दी	गाजर gājar, गज़र gazar
Kiswahili	karoti
Português	cenoura
Français	carotte
Deutsch	Karotte, Möhre, Mohrrübe, gelbe Rübe
Italiano	carota
Ελληνικά	καρότο karóto
Română	morcov, carotă
Русский	морко́вь morkóvʹ, морко́вка morkóvka, морква́ morkvá, мо́рква mórkva
Tiếng Việt	cà rốt, ca rốt
العربية	جَزَر jazar
עברית	גזר \ גֶּזֶר gézer

noun shade

Ελληνικά	καροτί karotí

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@misc{carrot_2026,
  title = {carrot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carrot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}