Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of umbelliferous plants, roughly hispid, with finely divided leaves and small ovate or oblong fruit covered with barbed prickles.
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- noun carrot
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Here is the ingredient list for their nutrient moisturizer. organic juices of vitis vinifera (white grape) juice, daucus carota sativa (carrot) juice
The Beauty Brains Left Brain 2010
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Wild Carrot Seed, or daucus carota, and trillium root are also used as herbal birth controls.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Lwashio 2010
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Wild Carrot Seed, or daucus carota, and trillium root are also used as herbal birth controls.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Lwashio 2010
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The crisp and edible taproot is a domesticated variant of daucus carota, the wild variety that is native to Europe and Asia.
unknown title 2009
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Page 288 middle of March, and then wherever they appear, we may plant peas and beans in the open grounds, (vitia sativa) French beans (phaccolus) sow raddishes, (raphanus) lettuce, (lactuca) onions, (cepa) pastinaca, daucus, and almost every kind of exculent garden seeds, without fear or danger from frosts; for although we have sometimes frosts after their first appearance for a night or two yet not so severe as to injure the young plants.
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