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Meaning of carob

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  carob
      n 1: long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp;
           used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
           [syn: {carob}, {carob bean}, {algarroba bean}, {algarroba},
           {locust bean}, {locust pod}]
      2: evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical
         carob [syn: {carob}, {carob tree}, {carob bean tree},
         {algarroba}, {Ceratonia siliqua}]
      3: powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used
         as a chocolate substitute [syn: {carob}, {carob powder},
         {Saint-John's-bread}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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