a perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
plant noun (plants and fungi)
D. c. sativa*
(* D. c. sativa may be used in a singular or plural context)
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carrot | cultivated carrot | Daucus carota sativa [subspecies]
a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, red, white, or yellow varieties exist. It has a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It's a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe ... (44 of 2389 words, 8 images)
common name for some members of the Umbelliferae, a family (also called the parsley family) of chiefly biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate ... (24 of 257 words)
may also refer to: Wild carrot, a flowering plant also known as Queen Anne's lace | Flaming Carrot Comics | Carrot Tower, a building in Tokyo, Japan | Camberwell carrot, a slang term for cannabis | Carrot fly | World Carrot Museum, an online museum ... (40 of 235 words, 26 senses)
herbaceous, generally biennial plant of the Apiaceae family that produces an edible taproot. Among common varieties root shapes range from globular to ... (22 of 100 words)
a plant, Daucus carota, of the parsley family, having pinnately decompound leaves and umbels of small white or yellow flowers, in its wild form a ... (25 of 95 words, 4 senses, pronunciation)
a thin tapering orange-colored root eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable | a biennial plant that produces carrots. Latin name Daucus carota. | Same as ... (24 of 92 words, 4 senses, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
a biennial herb (Daucus carota of the family Umbelliferae, the carrot family) with a usually orange spindle-shaped edible root | its root | a reward ... (23 of 55 words, 3 senses, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, orange, sweet root. | A shade of orange similar to the flesh of carrots. (19 of 32 words, 2 senses, 1 image, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
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