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a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots

a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots

A widely cultivated plant, Daucus carota sativa, having finely divided leaves, flat clusters of small white flowers, and an edible, yellow-orange root and also the long tapering root of the carrot, eaten as a vegetable. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 1982)

The fruit, -Carota, (Ph. U. S.) -and the root, Dauci radix, have been used in medicine. The root is sweet and mucilaginous; and the seeds have an aromatic odour, and moderately warm, pungent taste. The root has been used, as an emollient, to fetid and ill-conditioned sores. The seeds have been regarded as stomachic, carminative, and dinretic; but they have little efficacy. The seeds of the wild plant are, by some, preferred to those of the garden.

The carrot; the root of the cultivated variety is stimulant, and has some reputation as an application to ill-conditioned ulcers, etc. [Gr.]