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carob|ˈkærəb|
Forms: 6–7 carobe, carrob, 7 carabe, 9 carubbe, caroub, 6– carob.
[a. F. carobe, carrobe (also carroube, carrube) Cotgr. (now caroube), corresp. to It. carrubo, Sp. garrobo, algarrobo, a. Arab. (al) kharrūbah, in Pers. khirnūb, ‘bean-pods, carobs’.]
1. The fruit of an evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratonia siliqua), Carob-tree, a native of the Levant: a long flat horn-like pod containing numerous hard seeds embedded in pulp. Also called carob-bean, carob-pod.
Generally identified with the ‘husks’ eaten by the prodigal in the parable, Luke xv. 16; and by some taken to be the ‘locusts’ eaten by John the Baptist, whence the names locust-pods, and St. John's bread.
1548Turner Names of Herbes s.v. Siliqua, It may be called in english a Carobe tree, and the fruite Carobes or Carobbeanes. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Algarrova, Carobes, or S. Johns bread. 1601Holland Pliny II. 172 As for those Carobs or Cods of Syria. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 424 ægina hath..abundance of Almonds, and Keratia, or Carobs. 1880V. L. Cameron Our Future Highw. I. ii. 28 The carob harvest was going on as well as the olive gathering. 1886A. H. Church Food Grains Ind. 170 Carob pods are 6 inches to 1 foot in length, and about 1 inch broad.
2. The tree, more fully called carob-tree.
1548[see 1]. 1568Turner Herbal iii. 20 The leafe is lyke unto Carobe, or saint Johannis breadis tre. 1685Baxter Paraphr. Luke xv. 15 They would not let him fill his Belly with the Cods of the Carabe Tree, which was the swines meat. 1842L. S. Costello Pilgr. Auvergne I. 45 Where the tall carob's branches spread. c1854Stanley Sinai & Pal. ii. (1858) 146 The large dark-leaved, widespread tree called the ‘Carob’, common apparently in the forests of Galilee. 1886A. H. Church Food Grains Ind. 173 The carob tree was introduced into India about the year 1840. |