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)

Food & Agriculture

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

Synonyms: Carob

Crosswords: Carob

Manx (carob).

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.

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.

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

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

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)

harub. (various references)

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

kharrub. (various references)

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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carbo, cobra.

-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.

+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.

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