See Also: Old-fashioned sweet carrot kugel (Carrot pudding)(recipes)
carrot(dictionary)
carrot(encyclopedia)
carrot(dictionary)
Carrot tzimmes(recipes)
Carrot Cake(recipes)
Carrot and Stick(money)
Carrot equity(money)
Carrot equity(finance)
Parsnip and carrot mash(recipes)

carrot (iou)



carrot noun. L15.
[Old & mod. French carotte from Latin carota from Greek karoton.]
An umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, having a large tapering root which in cultivated forms is orange-coloured and edible; a root of this, eaten as a vegetable. L15.
b. fig. (with allus. to the traditional use of a carrot to induce a donkey to move, freq. opp. stick). An enticement; a promised reward. L19.
J. K. Galbraith Along with the carrot of pecuniary reward must go the stick of personal economic disaster.
Something carrot-shaped, esp. (N. Amer.) a plug of tobacco. M17.
In pl. Red hair; (a name for) a red-haired person. slang. L17.
carroty adjective like carrots; orange-red; red-haired: L17.