carrot, n.
(carrots)
(carrots)
promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"
<noun.act>
carrot
sample sentences
"used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote"
semantic pointers
hypernym
orange root; important source of carotene
<noun.food>
carrot
semantic pointers
hypernym
part holonym
perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
<noun.plant>
Daucus carota sativa carrot cultivated carrot
semantic pointers
part meronym
hypernym
member holonym
deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
<noun.plant>
carrot
lexical pointers
derivationally related form