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Carob   /kˈɛrəb/   Listen
Carob

noun
1.
Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute.  Synonyms: algarroba, algarroba bean, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod.
2.
Evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob.  Synonyms: algarroba, carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua.
3.
Powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute.  Synonyms: carob powder, Saint-John's-bread.



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"Carob" Quotes from Famous Books



... strange-scented shade of the great dark carob tree I came down the steps with my pitcher And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
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... of what species of tree was before us. I had seen it before. I knew it was the honey-locust, or thorny acacia,—the carob-tree of the East, and the famed 'algarobo' of ...
— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
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... SILIQUA.—The carob bean. This leguminous plant is a native of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. The seed pods contain a quantity of mucilaginous and saccharine matter, and are used as food for cattle. Besides the name ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
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... and beyond which the mountains of Sphakia rise in picturesque and alluring redundance of ravine and massive rock. All the nearer plain is green with the olive-orchards, and the road which approaches the front entrance is flanked with two lines of cypresses, and carob-trees grow up the rocky heights overlooking the convent, where no other tree will grow. The hum of bees filled the air, and mingled with the notes of nightingales (poetically fabled to sing only by night), the chirping of multitudinous sparrows, wrens, and linnets, and the twittering ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
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Words linked to "Carob" :   Ceratonia, bean, foodstuff, genus Ceratonia, bean tree, food product


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