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Definition of Algarroba
1. Noun. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute.
Substance meronyms: Carob, Carob Powder, Saint-john's-bread
Group relationships: Carob, Carob Bean Tree, Carob Tree, Ceratonia Siliqua
Generic synonyms: Bean
2. Noun. Evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob.
Group relationships: Ceratonia, Genus Ceratonia
Terms within: Algarroba Bean, Carob, Carob Bean, Locust Bean, Locust Pod
Generic synonyms: Bean Tree
3. Noun. Mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing.
Group relationships: Prosopis Juliflora, Prosopis Juliiflora
Generic synonyms: Bean
4. Noun. Mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands from Mexico to Venezuela.
Generic synonyms: Mesquit, Mesquite
Terms within: Algarobilla, Algarrobilla
Definition of Algarroba
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Algarroba
Literary usage of Algarroba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"The algarroba and Espinilla. TAKING our departure from Buenos Ayres, the point
to whicl all determinations of longitude were to be referred, we passed thi ..."
2. Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings: With Extracts from a Diary of Salado by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1865)
"... iabe ? again—Santiago Sierras—New Species of algarroba— Cheap Peaches—Constructing
Carretas—Enter Cordova Province —Territorial Formation of Sierras—Rio ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They live chiefly upon fish and the fruit of the algarroba, a species of ...
From the algarroba they prepare an intoxicating liquor which rouses them to a ..."
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