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Webster 1913 Edition

Carob

Car′ob

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
caroube
fruit of the carob tree, Sp.
garrobo
,
al-garrobo
, carob tree, fr. Ar.
kharrūb
, Per.
Kharnūb
. Cf.
Clgaroba
.]
1.
(Bot.)
An evergreen leguminous tree (
Ceratania Siliqua
) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John’s bread; – called also
carob tree
.
2.
One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; – called also
St. John's bread
,
carob bean
, and
algaroba bean
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Carob

CAROB

,
Noun.
The carob-tree, Ceratonia siliqua, a native of Spain, Italy, and the Levant. It is an evergreen, growing in hedges, and producing long, flat, brown-colored pods, filled with a mealy, succulent pulp, of a sweetish taste. In times of scarcity, these pods are eaten by poor people, but they are apt to cause griping and lax bowels.

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