Carrot vs. Radish — 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.

The radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus) is an edible root vegetable of the family Brassicaceae that was domesticated in Asia prior to Roman times.

A tapering orange-coloured root eaten as a vegetable

A swollen pungent-tasting edible root, especially a variety which is small, spherical, and red, and eaten raw with salad.

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

The plant of the cabbage family which yields the radish.

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

A Eurasian plant (Raphanus sativus) in the mustard family, having a fleshy edible root and white to purple flowers clustered in a terminal raceme.

A nickname for a red-haired person

The pungent root of this plant, often eaten raw.

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

A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.

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

The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.

Queen Anne's lace.

With a distinguishing word: some other plant of the Raphanus genus or Brassicaceae family.

A reward offered for desired behavior; an inducement

The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

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

Pungent fleshy edible root

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

Pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants

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

Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw

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

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