locust bean

Questions about locust bean

What does locust bean mean?

locust bean means "long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute".

What is another word for locust bean?

Close synonyms include carob, carob bean, algarroba bean, algarroba, locust pod. 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 locust bean a common word?

locust bean 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.