英语词汇carrot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	carrot
词源	carrot. From the Latin carota for the vegetable, which derives from the Greek karoton. When carrots were first brought to En- gland, women liked to use the plant’s fern-like leaves as hair decorations, but didn’t much care for them as food. The ancient Greeks extolled them as “love medicine” and called them philtron.
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