carrot

1. 1.

   deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

   Broaderroot
2. 2.

   perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions

   Synonymscultivated carrotDaucus carota sativa

   Broaderherb

   Part ofDaucus
3. 3.

   orange root; important source of carotene

   Broaderroot vegetable
4. 4.

   promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"

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

   Broaderreward

Other forms of carrot

plural

carrots·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carrot

What does carrot mean?

carrot means "deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carrot?

carrot has 2 syllables: car-rot. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkæɹət/.

What is another word for carrot?

Close synonyms include cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carrot a common word?

carrot is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.