carrot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   promise of reward as in 'carrot and stick'

   used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.

   Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.

4. 4
   noun

   orange root

5. 5
   noun

   perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots

6. 6
   noun

   deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

7. 7
   noun

   A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

8. 8
   noun

   Someone from a rural background.

Etymology

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.