The word "carrot" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the edible root vegetable. For example, "I love to snack on carrots while I'm watching my favorite TV show."
We ploughed into a tasty carrot cake and a pot of tea while 1990s music played reassuringly in the background.
By Christmas morning there is a full stocking, an empty glass, a few crumbs and most of a carrot (for some reason Rudolph never seems to be very hungry).
Then ate a hotel breakfast – carrot juice, omelette, lentils, salad, salmon – with no bread, no croissant; my new resolve on diet.
"Let's take her some carrot juice and melon to help her get strong and recover from the measles".
Backstage at the Bowery Ballroom, in New York's Lower East Side, beside a table containing a hacked-into roast chicken, carrot batons, hummus, bottles of wine and vodka, "but wraps, no bread, it makes me fat", John Newman is also digesting the news that his single Love Me Again is at No 20 and first album, Tribute, at No 2 in the American iTunes charts.
It was after one of those long meals of lentils and carrot stew washed down with cheap South African red wine that our romance blossomed.
His sauce also involves vast numbers of onions, as well as peppers, ginger, garlic, carrot, cabbage and tomato, slow-simmered for over an hour.
"I suppose the opportunity I gave myself in missing the IPL last year and potential carrot of the end of the road was, I think, three positions available at the start of our summer, and I didn't manage to get any of them.
Simmer for 45 minutes until very soft, adding the diced carrot and onion after 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, put the carcass in a deep pan with the rest of the herbs, the carrot and onion.
I couldn't see it as she pottered about making coffee, fussed over her uneaten carrot cake and talked me through the events of his death and the subsequent trial.
