daucus carota sativa

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscarrotcultivated carrot

   Broaderherb

   Part ofDaucus

   Partscarrot

Questions about daucus carota sativa

What does daucus carota sativa mean?

daucus carota sativa means "perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions".

What is another word for daucus carota sativa?

Close synonyms include carrot, cultivated carrot. 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 daucus carota sativa a common word?

daucus carota sativa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.