saint-john's-bread

Questions about saint-john's-bread

What is another word for saint-john's-bread?

It depends which saint-john's-bread you mean. In the sense “powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute”, the synonyms are carob, carob powder. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of saint-john's-bread?

WordNet records no antonym for saint-john's-bread. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for saint-john's-bread come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of saint-john's-bread

• Full entry for saint-john's-breadAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for saint-john's-breadWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.