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UK
/kˈæɹɒb/
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[ US /ˈkɛɹəb/ ]
[ US /ˈkɛɹəb/ ]
NOUN
- evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob
- long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
- powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute
How To Use carob In A Sentence
- Several months ago, a large portion of a giant, city-owned carob tree fell across the road in front of our house, exposing a massive beehive. Michael Seitzman: If a Tree Falls in Los Angeles, This Is the Sound it Makes
- Most people will associate carob with a popular alternative to chocolate, yet it would seem to be more of a ‘wonderbean'.
- His glaze was equally complex and equally secret, and he took both recipes to his grave when he hung himself from a carob tree in 1786.
- All carob beans, the fruit of the Locust tree, were extremely similar in weight.
- By 1500, Latin alchemists, still using carob beans as a basic unit of weight, measured things by the carratus.
- Besides the pine, its most common trees are the prickly oak, myrtle, lentisk, carob and olive. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- Miró's obsessive attention to a kind of personal storehouse of imagery, the carob tree, the animals and insects of Catalonia, his footprints in the place he fell to earth, begins to find its full expression in this painting. Joan Miró: A life in paintings
- The lowest elevations are distinguished by the predominance of sclerophyllous evergreen and semi-deciduous oak forests (Quercus coccifera, Q. brachyphylla), "maquis" of carob (Ceratonia siliqua), junipers (Juniperus phoenicea), and tree-spurge (Euphorbia dendroides). Crete Mediterranean forests
- Honey and fresh fruit are ok in small amounts and carob not chocolate, also soy yoghurt not ice cream.
- And when you taste the final product in the form of a carob cake, you'll have no doubt the humble carob tree has a great future!
