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noun

Carob n.

(Bot.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; called also carob tree.

One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of all this at the time, for Mr Englefield was secret as the grave as to the affairs of his employers. To soothe and amuse him was my province; so I pulled out a budget of cheerful home letters, and read them aloud, with comments, while he partook of breakfast under the shade of our carob tree. His brow relaxed by degrees, and after breakfast he proposed we should take a stroll together; and we set out, following the bend of the sea-shore, and returning by the eastern gate of the town. I am afraid this was a little stroke of crooked ...

— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... light upon the structure of Eumenes Amedei. The insect is scarce and lives apart; a meeting is an event upon which we must not count with too great confidence. It is an African species and loves the heat that ripens the carob and the date. It haunts the sunniest spots and selects rocks or firm stones as a foundation for its nest. Sometimes also, but seldom, it copies the Chalicodoma of the Walls and builds upon an ordinary ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

Words linked to "Carob" : bean, foodstuff, algarroba, carob bean, carob tree, algarroba bean, locust pod, locust bean