Definition of "carroty" [car•rot•y]

• Bright orange in color. (adjective)
• Having red hair; carrot-topped. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I was particularly proud of my inky eyelashes and darker brows, happy to have escaped that carroty look so many redheads have."
• "I meant to tell you, Jemimah Sandwich said a couple of the latest bunch even tried to tint their hair red—came out a kind of awful carroty orange."
• "Why in the deuce was she not carroty-haired, or cross-eyed, or hare-lipped?"