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单词 carob
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
car•ob  (karəb),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Plant Biologya Mediterranean tree, Ceratonia siliqua, of the legume family, bearing long, leathery pods containing hard seeds and sweet, edible pulp.
  2. Plant BiologyAlso called St. John's-bread, algarroba, locust bean. the pod of this tree, the source of various foodstuffs, including a substitute for chocolate, as well as substances having several industrial uses, and sometimes used as food for animals.
  3. Fooda powder made from the ground pods and seeds of this tree and used in cooking, esp. as a substitute for chocolate.
  • Arabic kharrūb bean-pods, carobs
  • Medieval Latin carrūbium
  • Middle French carobe
  • 1540–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
carob /ˈkærəb/ n
  1. Also called: algarroba an evergreen leguminous Mediterranean tree, Ceratonia siliqua, with compound leaves and edible pods

  2. Also called: algarroba, Saint John's bread the long blackish sugary pod of this tree, used as a substitute for chocolate and for animal fodder
Etymology: 16th Century: from Old French carobe, from Medieval Latin carrūbium, from Arabic al kharrūbah
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