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# carrot

noun (carrot, carrots)

«carrot» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A carrot is a long orange vegetable; it is the root of a plant that grows under the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#m1)
2. A carrot is a reward used to make someone do something: «the carrot and the stick». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#m2)

### In the lessons

food counted; rows in a garden, or fed to animals; in science, a root we eat; phrases «carrot cake», «carrot sticks», «carrot and stick»

### Examples

- The rabbit eats 3 carrots a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x1)
- She planted 5 rows of 10 carrots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x2)
- A bag has 12 carrots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x3)
- He sold carrots for 1 dollar each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x4)
- We pulled carrots from the garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x5)
- Carrot sticks make a healthy snack. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x6)
- The snowman has a carrot for a nose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x7)
- Grandma bakes carrot cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x8)
- Carrots grow under the soil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x9)
- The extra playtime was a carrot to finish work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x10)
- The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/#x11)

### Note

Just a thing counted. Trap: «a day» makes it a rate. Do not confuse «carrot» with «carat» (weight of jewels) or «caret» (the ^ mark). Carrots alone do not give you night vision — a myth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «carrot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«carrot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/carrot.html) on Mova free.