Rain: connotation is that of abundance, overabundance, or just sheer magnitude. ... The second connotation is sadness, melancholy, distress, or even foreboding. Use of rain or impending rain in movies to convey such these things is almost a trope.
It's going from a root to something else, so it would be a carrot, because a carrot is a root. just like potatoes, beets, and other vegetables of the like.
