carob bean

English Thesaurus

1. long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bean,
definition	:	any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans (noun.plant)

part meronym	:	algarroba, carob, carob bean tree, carob tree, ceratonia siliqua,
definition	:	evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob (noun.plant)

substance meronym	:	carob, carob powder, saint-john's-bread,
definition	:	powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute (noun.food)