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carrot
noun
- a biennial plant (Daucus carota) of the umbel family, with fernlike leaves and compound umbels of white flowers, usually with one red flower in the center: only the cultivated variety is edible
- the fleshy, orange-red root of the cultivated strain of this plant (var. sativa), eaten as a vegetable
- something offered as a tantalizing but deceptive inducement, like a carrot dangled before a donkey's nose
See carrot in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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