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D. c. sativa

Definition:

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

Class:

plant noun (plants and fungi)

Plural:

D. c. sativa*
(* D. c. sativa may be used in a singular or plural context)

Original source:

WordNet

Examples:

carrot | carrot

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Reference links

Wikipedia:

Carrot

Summary:

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)

Columbia:

carrot

Summary:

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)

Wikipedia:

Carrot (disambiguation)

Summary:

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)

Britannica:

carrot

Summary:

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)

Random House:

carrot

Summary:

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)

Encarta:

carrot | carrots [plural]

Summary:

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)

Merriam-Webster:

carrot

Summary:

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)

Wiktionary:

carrot | carrots [plural]

Summary:

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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