Carob meaning

kăr'əb
An edible powder or flour made from the ground seeds and pods of this plant, used as a substitute for chocolate.
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A leguminous tree (Ceratonia siliqua) of the E Mediterranean, bearing long, flat, leathery, brown pods with a sweet pulp.
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Such a pod, used for fodder or in making a nutritious, chocolatelike drink or candy.
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An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
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The fruit of that tree.
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A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.
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Origin of carob

  • Middle English carabe from Old French carobe from Medieval Latin carrūbium from Arabic ḫarrūba carob pod algaroba
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle French carobe, from Arabic خروب (kharrūb, “locust bean pod”), from Assyrian kharubu.
    From Wiktionary

Carob Sentence Examples

  • Cork and carob trees are also very common.

  • lettuce, endive, beet, radish, cress; cereals; and fodder plants such as lucerne and carob.

  • Chestnut woods are found in the Selino district, and forests of the valonia oak in that of Retimo; in some parts the carob tree is abundant and supplies an important article of consumption.

  • Basin's principal work is his Historiae de rebus a Carob VII.

  • In the higher regions the principal trees are various species of fig, tamarind, carob and numerous kinds of cactiform Euphorbia, of which one, the Euphorbia arborea, grows to a height of 20 ft.

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