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The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.

rn part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b). -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, a…