carob powder

1. 1.

   powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute

   SynonymscarobSaint-John's-bread

   Broaderfoodstuff

Questions about carob powder

What does carob powder mean?

carob powder means "powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute".

What is another word for carob powder?

Close synonyms include carob, Saint-John's-bread. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carob powder a common word?

carob powder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.