Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAR'OB, n. [Sp. algarroba; It. carruba.]

The carob-tree, Ceratonia siliqua, a native of Spain, Italy, and the Levant. It is an evergreen, grossing 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. – Encyc.