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Carob

Definitions: Carob

Carob

Noun

1. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute.

2. Evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob.

3. Powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "carob" was first used: 1548. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Carob

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

The fruit of a small evergreen tree(Ceratonia siliqua)indigenous to the Mediterranean region; it is used mainly as a material for distilling or as animal feeding stuff. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Carob

Synonyms: algarroba (n), algarroba bean (n), carob bean (n), carob bean tree (n), carob powder (n), carob tree (n), locust bean (n), locust pod (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Carob

English words defined with "carob": Algaroba, algarrobacarob bar, carob bean, carob bean tree, carob powder, carob tree, Ceratonia siliquaHusks of the prodigal sonlocust beanSaint John's bread, Saint-John's-bread. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Carob" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (carob).

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Commercial Usage: Carob

DomainTitle

Books

  • Carob Cookbook (reference)

  • Cooking With Carob (reference)

  • Juel Andersen's Carob Primer: A Beginner's Book of Carob Cookery (reference)

  • The Carob Way to Health: All-Natural Recipes for Cooking With Nature's Healthful Chocolate Alternative (reference)

  • The Here's Health Alternative Chocolate Book/over 100 Healthy Carob Recipes (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Carob

Illustrations:
Carob

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carob

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Cyprus

Agriculture and natural resources (6.0% of GDP): Products--potatoes and other vegetables, citrus fruits, olives, grapes, wheat, carob seeds. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Carob

"Carob" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carob" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Carob

Expressions using "carob": carob bar carob bean carob bean tree carob powder carob tree locust or carob beans. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "carob": carob-bean, carob-coloured.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carob

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  carob

127

  carob powder recipe

4

  agriculture carob

119

  carob candy

4

  carob company list

44

  bean carob gum

4

  carob importer

42

  benefit carob

4

  carob chip

21

  carob unsweetened

4

  carob tree

16

  carob syrup

3

  carob seller

13

  carob cookie

3

  carob recipe

12

  brownie carob

3

  carob powder

11

  bean carob soy

3

  buyer carob wholesale

10

  carob cream ice

3

  carob bean

6

  carob ferret greene raisin sheppard treat

3

  carob dog recipe treat

5

  carob dog

2

  carob chocolate

5

  carob chip cookie

2

  bar carob

5

  cake carob

2
  

carob cookie recipe

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carob

Language Translations for "carob"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏خروب (locust, locust bean), ‏شجرة الخرنوب. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рожков (locust, locust tree). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

'豆 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

johannesbroed (carob-bean, locust or carob beans). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

carobe (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), sint-jansbrood (carob-bean, locust or carob beans). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

johanneksenleipäpuu (bean tree, carob tree, carob-bean, locust or carob beans, Saint-John's bread-tree, St.John's bread-tree). (various references)

   

French

  

caroube (carob-bean, locust or carob beans). (various references)

   

German

  

Carube (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), Karobe (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), Johannnisbrot (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), Johannisbrotkern (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), Johannisbrot (carob-bean, locust or carob beans). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξυλοκέρατο, χαρούπι (locust bean). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חרוב (locust). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szentjánoskenyér (carob-bean, locust, locust-beam, St. John's bread). (various references)

   

Italian

  

carruba (carob-bean, locust or carob beans). (various references)

   

Manx

  

carob. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arobcay

   

Portuguese

  

figueira-do-egipto (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), fava-rica (carob-bean, locust or carob beans), alfarroba (carob-bean, locust or carob beans). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

roşcovã, roşcov (carob tree, locust). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рожковое дерево (acacia, locust tree). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rogač (judas-tree, locust bean, locust beans). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

algarroba (bard vetch, carob-bean, locust, locust bean, locust or carob beans, monantha vetch, one-flowered tare, one-leaved vetch). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

johannesbröd (bean tree, carob tree, Saint-John's bread-tree, St.John's bread-tree). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

keçiboynuzu (locust, locust bean), harnup (locust). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Carob

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

harub. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

Ceratonia, CERATONIA SILIQUA, Ceratonia siliqua L.. (various references)

Arabic500-Modern

kharrub. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carob

Derivations

Words beginning with "carob": carobs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Carob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arub, cabor, calob, capro, caraq, carb, Carbh, carbo, carbol, carbox, careb, caribb, caroa, carobe, carobo, carod, caron, caroo, Carow, carox, carro, Carroz, Caruba, carumba, caryo, Carzo, cdro, cerb, ceroc, ciro, Corob, Craib, Craobh, crob, crobe, Croob, Darbo, garob, Garoeb, Kirub, krob, pcprobe, Scarbo, scarob, Zakob. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carob"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "carob" (pronounced ke"rub)
4-e" r u bcherub.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Carob

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carbo, cobra.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-o-r"

-1 letter: arco, boar, bora, carb, crab, orca.

-2 letters: abo, arb, arc, bar, boa, bra, bro, cab, car, cob, cor, oar, oca, ora, orb, orc, rob, roc.

-3 letters: ab, ar, ba, bo, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-o-r"
 

+1 letter: boxcar, broach, carbon, carbos, carboy, carobs, cobras, corban, crambo.

 

+2 letters: abroach, acrobat, aerobic, boraces, boracic, boxcars, bracero, brocade, carabao, carbons, carbora, carboys, caribou, ciboria, corbans, corbina, cordoba, crambos, crowbar, rockaby.

 

+3 letters: abductor, acrobats, aerobics, albacore, albicore, ascorbic, bachelor, backdoor, backdrop, backroom, barbasco, barouche, barranco, baryonic, beclamor, becoward, bookrack, boracite, braceros, braciola, braciole, braconid, broached, broacher, broaches, brocaded, brocades, brocatel, brockage, bronchia, buckaroo, buckayro, cabestro, cabresto, cabriole, carabaos, carbinol, carbolic, carbonic, carbonyl, carboras, carboxyl, carboyed, caribous, choriamb, combater, corbinas, cordobas, cornball, corybant, cramboes, crossbar, crowbars, cupboard, gabbroic, isobaric, microbar, mobocrat, obduracy, rockabye, rollback, roorbach, roorback, saprobic, scabrous, turbocar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Carob


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 6F 62

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-.    ---    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101111 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#98

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 006F 0062

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767848168

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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