baby carrots

Noun

baby carrot (plural baby carrots)

1. A carrot harvested and sold when immature and of a small size.
   • The baby carrots and the little rosebud beets which are being thinned out of the garden should be canned at the present time.1916 September, T. J. Newbill, “Canning Vegetables by the Cold-pack Process”, in Monthly Bulletin, volume 4, number 6, Puyallup, Wash.: Western Washington Experiment Station, page 334
2. A small finger-shaped piece of carrot cut from a full-sized carrot.
   • The California carrot production industry developed a high value "cut and peel" or "baby" carrot product using higher quality, more slender 'Imperator' type hybrids that was immensely popular at retail.2007, Philip W. Simon et al., “Carrot”, in Jaime Prohens, Fernando Nuez, editors, Vegetables II: Fabaceae, Liliaceae, Solanaceae, and Umbelliferae (Handbook of Plant Breeding), New York, N.Y....