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carob

ˈkɛrəb
WordNet
Interesting fact
Carob trees do not produce fruit until they are seventy years old.
  1. (n) carob
    powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute
  2. (n) carob
    evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob
  3. (n) carob
    long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
  1. Carob
    (Bot) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) carob
    The common English name of the plant Ceratonia Siliqua. See Ceratonia.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Carob
    kar′ob the algaroba or locust-tree, a tree of the order Leguminosæ, native to the Mediterranean countries.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. caroube, fruit of the carob tree, Sp. garrobo, al-garrobo, carob tree, fr. Ar. kharrūb, Per. Kharnūb,. Cf. Clgaroba

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Through Fr. from Ar. kharrūbah.

Usage in the news

Carob -Mint Cookie at Real Food Daily. laweekly.com

Harold Greene made the coffee table seen in the foreground out of a carob-tree trunk. dailynews.com

The bottom of Sicily lies farther south than the top of Tunisia, so it's no surprise that the landscape here—rugged limestone gorges, carob plantations, and quiet farms—is neither European nor African, but something intriguingly in-between. travelandleisure.com

Gluten-Free Honey Cake and Carob Drop Cookies. gntv.trb.com

Usage in literature

A boy of six introduced a carob-nut kernel into each ear. "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George M. Gould

Silks, minerals, baulks of timber, ingots of lead, carobs, rape-seed, liquorice, sugar cane, great piles of dutch cheeses. "Tartarin de Tarascon" by Alphonse Daudet

It is an African species and loves the heat that ripens the carob and the date. "The Wonders of Instinct" by J. H. Fabre

The path led through a grove of carob trees, from which the beans, known in Germany as St. John's bread, are produced. "The Lands of the Saracen" by Bayard Taylor

No more longing for the pods of the carob-tree. "New Tabernacle Sermons" by Thomas De Witt Talmage

Choni, the Maagol, once saw in his travels an old man planting a carob-tree, and he asked him when he thought the tree would bear fruit. "Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala" by Various

About 40,000 quintals of these carobs are annually exported from Crete. "The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom" by P. L. Simmonds

The Spanish name is Algoraba, or Carob-tree. "The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island" by Roger Thompson Finlay

His work was to stay in the fields and feed them with husks, the hard pods of the carob tree. "Child's Story of the Bible" by Mary A. Lathbury

Carobs, or locust beans, figure up to about $300,000. "Asiatic Breezes" by Oliver Optic

Usage in poetry
A shady carob grows in my garden –
green, remote from the city’s crowds –
whose foliage whispers secrets of God.
Good my brother, let’s take refuge.