Crossword clues for carrot
carrot
- Prop for Bugs Bunny
- Metaphorical incentive
- Horse's snack
- Symbolic incentive
- Snowman's nose, typically
- Snowman's nose, perhaps
- Snack for Bugs
- Nosh for Bugs
- Horse's lure, sometimes
- Vegetable soup ingredient
- Vegetable on a platter of hors d'oeuvres
- Vegetable for vitamin A
- Undercarriage rust?
- Treat for Bugs
- Symbolic lure
- Subject of a myth about night vision
- Promised reward
- Pot pie vegetable
- Part of some frozen faces
- Orange mirepoix component
- Munchie for Bugs Bunny
- Munchie for Bugs
- Incentive, metaphorically
- Incentive (but not the stick)
- Illusory reward
- Figurative inducement
- Figurative incentive
- Figurative enticement
- Enticement metaphor
- Dangling lure
- Dangling incentive
- Dangling enticement
- Dangler on a stick
- Bugs Bunny's favorite food
- Bugs Bunny snack
- Appetizer tray tidbit
- _____ River Saskatchewan
- Rabbit's treat
- Incentive, so to speak
- Stick's partner, in an idiom
- Stick : punishment :: ___ : enticement
- Dessert often made with cream cheese frosting
- Stick : punishment :: ___ : reward
- Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical deep-orange edible roots
- Temperate and tropical regions
- Orange root
- Important source of carotene
- Promise of reward as in
- Tempting dangler
- Edible root
- Donkey's reward
- Queen Anne's lace, e.g.
- Vegetable accompanying a stick
- Salad ingredient
- Stick's alternative
- Dieter's snack
- Rabbit's incentive
- A biennial plant
- Certain incentive
- Donkey tempter
- Bugs Bunny treat
- Tantalizing inducement
- Orange vegetable
- Inducement to bed a bishop
- Incentive to get back into motor racing
- Incentive for panel game host to do send-up
- Root vegetable
- Orange veggie in a salad
- Stereotypical inducement
- V8 veggie
- Stick alternative
- Snowman's nose
- Snack for Bugs Bunny
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French carrotte, from Latin carota, from Greek karoton "carrot," probably from PIE *kre-, from root *ker- (1) "horn, head" (see horn (n.)); so called for its horn-like shape.\n
\nOriginally white-rooted and a medicinal plant to the ancients, who used it as an aphrodisiac and to prevent poisoning. Not entirely distinguished from parsnips in ancient times. Reintroduced in Europe by Arabs c.1100. The orange carrot, which existed perhaps as early as 6c., probably began as a mutation of the Asian purple carrot and was cultivated into the modern edible plant 16c.-17c. in the Netherlands. Thus the word is used as a color name but not before 1670s in English, originally of red hair.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, orange, sweet root, ''Daucus carota'' in the family Apiaceae. 2 A shade of orange similar to the flesh of carrots. 3 A motivational tool.
WordNet
n. deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical deep-orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions [syn: cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa]
orange root; important source of carotene
promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"; "used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote";
Wikipedia
A carrot is a vegetable.
Carrot may also refer to:
The carrot ( Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow varieties exist. Carrots are a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to both Europe and southwestern Asia. The plant probably originated in Persia and was originally cultivated for its leaves and seeds. Nowadays, the most commonly eaten part of the plant is the taproot, although the greens are sometimes eaten as well. The domestic carrot has been selectively bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured taproot.
The carrot is a biennial plant in the umbellifer family Apiaceae. It grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer while building up the stout taproot. Fast-growing varieties mature within three months of sowing the seed, while slower-maturing varieties are harvested in autumn and winter. The roots contain high quantities of alpha and beta carotene, and are a good source of vitamin K and vitamin B6.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports that world production of carrots and turnips (these plants are combined by the FAO for reporting purposes) for calendar year 2011 was almost 35.658 million tonnes. Almost half were grown in China. Carrots are widely used in many cuisines, especially in preparation of salads, and carrot salads are a tradition in many regional cuisines.
Usage examples of "carrot".
Western psyche that was never allowed to be scratched and then forgottenthe ascendent carrot on a very long stick held above and in front of the collective donkey that assured that the poor beast would always lurch forward and never be allowed to eat.
The soup and the blinis were all right, and the ice-cream with blackcurrant jam was fine, but the meat with its attendant teaspoonfuls of chopped carrot, chopped lettuce, and inch-long chips went across the table to Frank.
Grandpa, and then and there he told Brighteyes a funny story about a little white rabbit that lived in a garden and had carrots to eat, and it ate so many that its white hair turned red and it looked too cute for anything, and then it went to the circus.
Amherst intellectuals begging you to save them from creeping faggotry by permitting them to stick their carrots in your sticky little slit?
A servant whisked away his empty bowl, and replaced it with rabbithorn forcemeat in a tender crust, a serving of carrots surrounding it.
There was a sharp cheddar, Havarti, Brie, a salsa, an avocado dip, baby carrots, and various kinds of chips.
When the ASPCA representative paid a surprise visit and interrupted Hisser at dinner a live-cat sandwich and a side of carrot slaw the jig was up.
With Kaneko of a carpenter shop and Kaku of a fishmarket, I once ruined a carrot patch of one Mosaku.
Out of the corner of her eye Raina spotted pretty Lansa Tanner, her cheeks dusted with flour, fussily chopping carrots.
On April 26 the stream became a flood, and while Saul and Barney Mul-doon tried to reason with Markoff Chaney and he struggled in their grip, Ingolstadters found themselves inundated by Frodo Baggins and His Ring, the Mouse That Roars, the Crew of the Flying Saucer, the Magnificent Ambersons, the House I Live In, the Sound of One Hand, the Territorial Imperative, the Druids of Stonehenge, the Heads of Easter Island, the Lost Continent of Mu, Bugs Bunny and His Fourteen Carrots, the Gospel According to Marx, the Card-Carrying Members, the Sands of Mars, the Erection, the Association, the Amalgamation, the St.
Carrots, with a pack of street Arabs at his heels, jeered at the new motorman, climbing up on the car and taunting him, until, at last, his patience was exhausted, and he suddenly lifted his foot and kicked one of the boys off the car.
Add one wineglassful of Claret, one cupful of beef stock, one cupful of chopped mushrooms, a carrot and an onion chopped fine, and salt, pepper, thyme, clove and parsley to season.
Their reward for enduring a considerable wait would be chipped bowls full of a perpetually simmering, nondenominational stew: cabbage hunks, runted spuds, and bitter carrots mixed with tough cubes of jerked meat, beans, and random corn kernels.
Before the French Revolution the sale of Carrots and oranges was prohibited in the Dutch markets, because of the unpopular aristocratic colour of these commodities.
Mexican ladies poke at the dead dog, and it sways reluctantly in the forenoon market-smell of platanos for frying, sweet baby carrots from the Red River Valley, trampled raw greens of many kinds, cilantro smelling like animal musk, strong white onions, pineapples fermenting in the sun, about to blow up, great mottled shelves of mountain mushroom.