I'm reading children's books in Japanese to study Japanese, but since they are
for children, it's all in hiragana. In one part there is
とうさんのうえたニンジンはたくさんのみをつけた, but there are many meanings to み. What does it mean
in this case?
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What does み mean? とうさんのうえたニンジンはたくさんのみをつけた
This み is 実 in kanji, and it means 'fruit' in the biological sense.
実【み】を付ける【つける】 is a set phrase meaning 'to bear fruit'.

As Chocolate pointed out, technically speaking, the 実 of the carrot is
something like [this](https://hananusubito.blog.fc2.com/blog-
entry-10143.html). The orange part we eat is technically 根 (root). Since this
is a children's book, let's just overlook this small mistake and understand
that it means many (orange) carrots were produced.
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