Synonyms for carrot
ˈkær ətcar·rot

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1. carrotnoun

   deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

2. carrot, cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativanoun

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

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

3. carrotnoun

   orange root; important source of carotene

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

4. carrotnoun

   promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"

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

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

Matched Categories

1. • Herb
   • Root
   • Root Vegetable

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1. List of paraphrases for "carrot":

   carota, core, sugar, stick

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1. British Journalist Katie Hopkins:

   That's not baby weight. That's carrot cake.

2. Abderrahman Hassi:

   Unsilenceable: An outspoken person, usually in politics or in organizational life,that cannot be shut down neither by carrot nor by stick. Unsilenceable people say what they think and let their heart and soul speak out loud with no terror of being shut down. Abderrahman Hassi

3. Bart Staes:

   Countries opposed to GMOs are given the carrot of being able to opt-out of these authorisations, but the scheme approved today fails to give them a legally-watertight basis for doing so. This is a false solution.

4. Robinson Jeffers:

   Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

5. Fred Zelinger:

   There has been a flurry of research in the last five years that says that rewards for grades actually reduce motivation, i don’t believe in the carrot-and-stick mentality. If you do celebrate the grades, a spontaneous activity that offers quality time together is the best, rather than a gift or money.