locust pod

Questions about locust pod

What does locust pod mean?

locust pod 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 pod?

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

locust pod 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.