Sentence:  Mike Yurosek, a California farmer, revolutionized the industry by dreaming up the "<WSD>baby carrot</WSD>" idea. ... By 1989, Yurosek had built a mechanized operation to turn out his product. Marketed as <WSD>baby carrots</WSD>, the miniatures are not young vegetables at all. "They're grown-up carrots cut up into two-inch sections, pumped through water-filled pipes into whirling cement-mixer-size peelers, and whittled down to the niblets Americans know, love, and scarf down by the bagful," journalist Elizabeth Weise writes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A small finger-shaped piece of carrot cut from a full-sized carrot.