"carrots" in the noun sense

1. carrot

deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

2. carrot, cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa

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

3. carrot

orange root important source of carotene

4. carrot

promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"

"used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote"

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