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• n  long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
• n  evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob
• n  mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing
• n  mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands from Mexico to Venezuela

• carob
• carob bean
• algarroba bean
• locust bean
• locust pod
• carob tree
• carob bean tree
• Ceratonia siliqua
• algarrobilla
• algarobilla
• Prosopis juliflora
• Prosopis juliiflora