Carrot vs. Homophone — What's the Difference?

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, most commonly observed as orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. A homophone may also differ in spelling.

A tapering orange-coloured root eaten as a vegetable

Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.

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

One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.

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

(semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.

A nickname for a red-haired person

A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

A biennial Eurasian plant (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) in the parsley family, widely cultivated as an annual for its edible taproot.

A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.

The usually tapering, elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

Queen Anne's lace.

Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

A reward offered for desired behavior; an inducement

A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.

A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

(figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.

Someone from a rural background.

A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.

(slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person

(transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

Deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical deep-orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions

Orange root; important source of carotene

Promise of reward as in