different between apiaceae vs carrot

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin car?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (karôton). Doublet of carotte. Displaced native Old English m?re.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kâr'?t, IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/; enPR: k?r'?t, IPA^(key): /?k??.?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kâr'?t, IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??t
• Homophones: carat, karat
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• Hyphenation: car?rot

Noun

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

3. (figuratively) Any motivational tool.

Synonyms

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Translations

See also

• Queen Anne's lace

References

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted)

1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Derived terms

• carroting

Anagrams

• trocar