1. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
   "They planted rows of carrots in their vegetable garden";
   - cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa
    
2. Deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
   "She grated carrots for the salad"
    
3. Promise of reward as in ‘carrot and stick’
   "used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote"

Sounds like: carat, caret, karat

Derived forms: carrots

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, reinforcement, reward, root

Part of: Daucus, genus Daucus

Encyclopedia: Carrot