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carrot

/ˈkæɹət/ noun A2
  1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). (countable, uncountable)
  3. Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)
  4. A redhead; a ginger-haired person (countable, slang, uncountable)

Plural carrots

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And hair as red as carrots!
Anne of Green Gables, p. 65 · C1
“Carrots!
Anne of Green Gables, p. 113 · C1
Carrots!”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 113 · C1
It was asking too much of flesh and blood to expect her to tell before the whole school that she had been called “carrots.” Gilbert it was who spoke up stoutly.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 114 · C1

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