a tapering orange-coloured root eaten as a vegetable

roast lamb with peas and carrots

grated carrot

carrot cake

carrot juice

a cultivated plant of the parsley family with feathery leaves, which yields carrots

an offer of something enticing as a means of persuasion (often contrasted with the threat of something punitive or unwelcome)

carrots will promote cooperation over the environment far more effectively than sticks

a nickname for a red-haired person

He pulled her red plaits and said in a loud whisper, ‘Carrots! Carrots!’