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carroty

American  
[kar-uh-tee] / ˈkær ə ti /

adjective

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


carroty British  
/ 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

Etymology

Origin of carroty

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


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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.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022

Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way."

From Time Magazine Archive

Maxey Jarman has carroty hair and mustache, a thick Southern drawl and is a Baptist deacon like his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

While in Shushenskoe, Lenin married a fellow exile, Nadezhda Krupskaya, a thin, hot-eyed girl with carroty hair and many of the strong-minded qualities of the young women in the pages of Chekhov and Turgenev.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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