NOUN
- long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
How To Use carob bean In A Sentence
- Well, I once spent several hours in a boring conference collecting carob bean seeds from the courtyard, brought them back to the US, weighed each one carefully and discovered what every merchant knew.
- The carob tree has fruit called carob beans which are mostly identical in size.
- Carob beans are the origin of the term ‘carat’, unit of weight for gemstones (due to an odd quirk of all carob beans being the same size).
- Our friend stands underneath the tree looking eagerly up at the carob beans.
- It also produces cereals, carob beans, almonds and apricots, which are very good buys in the local market.
- This is achieved through a process of drying, grinding and roasting the carob beans.
- The company is a grower and processor of carob beans into carob flavour products.
- At one time, carob beans were a major export for Cyprus, sold all over the world as a substitute for chocolate.
- 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.
