carob

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
noun evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob
noun powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute

Borrowed from Middle French carobe, from Arabic خَرُّوب (ḵarrūb), from Classical Syriac ܚܪܘܒܐ (ḥarrūḇā).

With J. J. O’Molloy he came forth slowly into Mary’s abbey where draymen were loading floats with sacks of carob and palmnut meal, O’Connor, Wexford. — Ulysses, James Joyce

carob bean, algarroba bean, algarroba, locust bean, locust pod

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