The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carob \Car"ob\, n. [Cf. F. caroube fruit of the carob tree, Sp. garrobo, al-garrobo, carob tree, fr. Ar. kharr[=u]b, Per. Kharn[=u]b. Cf. Clgaroba.]
(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.
WordNet
n. evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob [syn: carob, carob bean tree, algarroba, Ceratonia siliqua]
Usage examples of "carob tree".
But he is tough, that one, tougher than a knot in an old carob tree.
It is basically a chocolate substitute made from the roasted and ground pods of the carob tree, a Mediterranean evergreen that goes by the name Ceratonia siliqua.
A trooper unstrapped the rolled blanket from behind his saddle, spread it on the scraggly twistgrass beneath the carob tree, and set out a canteen, two cups and a piece of Colonial flat biscuit with a small twist of gray salt on it.
Instead I sought a hiding place for Thistle and finally tied him to a carob tree behind a mosque, across the way from the king’.
It could have been a figure of white stone, or a scattering of bones, or simply the bleached roots of an olive or carob tree long drowned in the desert's ergs and sandpapered to a reflective whiteness.
Bar Yohai defied the Roman edicts which banned Judaism and he fled to the village of Peki'in where he lived in a cave and where the Lord provided him with a carob tree for food and a stream for water.
It was Tanus who picked out the sinister movement in the moonlight ahead of us and seized my arm and drew me beneath the shelter of a stunted carob tree.
It was a Carob tree from Old Earth, sometimes called the Judas Tree.
Downslope were rocky fields of stubble, with an occasional carob tree.