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carroty

[ kar-uh-tee ]

adjective

  1. like a carrot, as in color, flavor, or shape.


carroty

/ ˈkærətɪ /

adjective

  1. of a reddish or yellowish-orange colour
  2. having red hair
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of carroty1

First recorded in 1690–1700; carrot + -y 1
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Example Sentences

With an intensely carroty flavor and aroma, carrot greens possess the pleasant earthy bitterness common for leafy greens but with a feathery texture that feels like an herb.

It was also strikingly more tomatoey and carroty, brighter in flavor, but less deep.

The cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat; he beckons with his ladle to every one that passes, and spoons him out a great dollop.

His hair was a carroty red, and he grinned at her all lopsided.

Seed catalogues will point to a carrot that is especially carroty, a pumpkin with a rich, dense, non-watery flesh, or a beet with that good old-fashioned beet taste.

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