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carrot | American Dictionary

carrot
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkær·ət/

carrotnoun[C] (VEGETABLE)

a long, pointed, orange root, eaten as vegetable, either raw or cooked

carrotnoun[C] (REWARD)

something that is offered to someone in order to encourage that person to do something:
If they finished the construction ahead of schedule, they were offered the carrot of a bonus.

Examples of carrot

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However, the area devoted to organic carrot cultivation plus that under conversion to organic is currently limited to c. 400 ha1.
For example, organic lettuce, tomatoes and carrots were said to have lot more flavor than their conventional counterparts.
What is needed are carrots that are well labelled.
The most severe threat that has long created difficulties for carrot growers is that of weeds.
Access to early retirement thus became the carrot that encouraged workers to annuitize.
Many such crops, including carrot, have notably heat-tolerant seeds, so that sowing and treatment operations could be performed at the same time10.
They are going to eat on these plates (producing plates) and have this supper (producing a container with potatoes and carrots).
It is not clear, from the present study, whether endo-mannanase is also involved in the germinative programme in carrot seeds.
In the years 2002 and 2003 carrot showed the same production trend.
One means "to ingest crunchy-solid foods" (like carrots).
For example, in the sentence ' the rabbit was eating the carrot ', the perspective on the situation is focused on the unfolding of the event.
As a result, a carrot canopy can only achieve a very scanty ground cover4.
Instead, the king bargained with the assembled estates, using a carefully constructed mixture of stick and carrot.
For vegetables, the percentages of organic premiums to conventional prices vary from about 15% for tomatoes and carrots to as high as 60% for potatoes.
Not surprisingly, fresh produce were priced significantly lower when they were on sale than not on sale, except for carrots.
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