| 单词 | carrot |
| 释义 | carrot (once / 1219 pages) 1n 2n A carrot is a long, orange root vegetable. Carrots can be planted as tiny seeds and grown in a backyard garden. Carrots are a popular vegetable to eat raw on their own, or chopped and tossed in a salad. You can also cook carrots, or grate them and make a carrot cake. You might also use the word carrot to mean an implied reward, especially in the phrase "carrot and stick," which comes from the idea of enticing a donkey or mule forward with a carrot, or punishing it for not moving by hitting it with a stick. WORD FAMILYcarrot: carrots, carroty USAGE EXAMPLESIn winter that means lots of carrots, baby brussels sprouts and apples. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) A one-day soup cleanse incorporates bottles of cauliflower coconut, carrot turmeric and a shiitake mushroom vegan bone broth. Priced from $55 for five soups. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Add the onion, carrots, celery, garlic and thyme and season with ½ teaspoon salt and several grinds of pepper, or to taste. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions Syn|Hyper Daucus carota sativa, cultivated carrot herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant Hyper root (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 3n orange root; important source of carotene 2Hyper root vegetable any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers n promise of reward as in "carrot and stick" used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote Hyper reinforcement, reward an act performed to strengthen approved behavior |
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