Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

carrot

car.rot \'kar-*t\ n [MF carotte, fr. LL carota, fr. Gk karo-ton] 1: a 
   biennial herb (Daucus carota of the family Umbelliferae, the car rot 
   family) with a usu. orange spindle-shaped edible root; also : its root 2: a 
   promised often illusory reward or advantage