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car·ob

(kăr′əb)

a. A Mediterranean evergreen tree (Ceratonia siliqua) of the pea family, having pinnately compound leaves and large, dark, leathery pods.

b. The pod of this plant, containing a sweet edible pulp and seeds that yield a gum used as a stabilizer in food products. Also called algaroba.

2. An edible powder or flour made from the ground seeds and pods of this plant, used as a substitute for chocolate.

[Middle English carabe, from Old French carobe, from Medieval Latin carrūbium, from Arabic ḫarrūba, carob pod; see algaroba.]

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carob

(ˈkærəb)

1. (Plants) Also called: algarroba an evergreen leguminous Mediterranean tree, Ceratonia siliqua, with compound leaves and edible pods

2. (Cookery) Also called: algarroba or Saint John's bread the long blackish sugary pod of this tree, used as a substitute for chocolate and for animal fodder

[C16: from Old French carobe, from Medieval Latin carrūbium, from Arabic al kharrūbah]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

car•ob

(ˈkær əb)

n.

1. a Mediterranean tree, Ceratonia siliqua, of the legume family, bearing long leathery pods containing sweet edible pulp.

2. the pod of this tree.

3. the pulp of the pods, often ground into a powder and used esp. as a substitute for chocolate.

[1540–50; < Middle French carobe < Medieval Latin carrūbium < Arabic kharrūb bean-pods, carobs]

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Noun	1.	carob - long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute algarroba, algarroba bean, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod carob powder, Saint-John's-bread, carob - powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, algarroba, carob - evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob bean - any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
	2.	carob - evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, algarroba Ceratonia, genus Ceratonia - carobs algarroba, algarroba bean, carob, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod - long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute bean tree - any of several trees having seedpods as fruits
	3.	carob - powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute carob powder, Saint-John's-bread food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food algarroba, algarroba bean, carob, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod - long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute

Translations

Johannisbrot Johannisbrotbaum

algarroba algarrobo

johanneksenleipäpuu

rogač

johannesbroodjohannesbroodboom

carob

[ˈkærəb] N (= bean) → algarroba f; (= tree) → algarrobo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

carob

n → Johannisbrotbaum m; (= fruit) → Johannisbrot nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

carob

[ˈkærəb] n → carrubo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Sancho ate without requiring to be pressed, and in the dark bolted mouthfuls like the knots on a tether, and said he, "You are a proper trusty squire, one of the right sort, sumptuous and grand, as this banquet shows, which, if it has not come here by magic art, at any rate has the look of it; not like me, unlucky beggar, that have nothing more in my alforjas than a scrap of cheese, so hard that one might brain a giant with it, and, to keep it company, a few dozen carobs and as many more filberts and walnuts; thanks to the austerity of my master, and the idea he has and the rule he follows, that knights-errant must not live or sustain themselves on anything except dried fruits and the herbs of the field."

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New plantation to produce range of carob products

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Black gold of the ancients makes a comeback

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