(n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.
(n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The length of small intestine, large intestine and caeca and the weight of gizzard expressed per kg of body weight increased with an increase in the level of carob pods meal, which is rich in fibre, in the diets.
(2) Fusarium moniliforme was cultured semicontinuously on a carob medium in a 14-liter fermentor (8.5-liter working volume).
(3) The extent to which tea, cocoa and carob (foods rich in polyphenols) influence fecal nitrogen (N) excretion was investigated in rats.
(4) With extracts of tea and carob, however, the increased excretion of N in feces resulted either from a decreased digestibility of other dietary protein, through interaction with their polyphenols, or from a stimulation of the excretion of endogenous (body) nitrogen.
(5) Vis has orchards of 1,000-year-old carob trees, rare orchids, plants and herbs that are dying out elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the most densely developed and visited tourist region in the world.
(6) The gums studied were tragacanth, karaya, ghatti, carob, guar, arabic and xanthan gum.
(7) The quinta, whose name means “estate of the carob tree”, lies a mile outside the village, on top of a sandy hill.
(8) spectroscopy has been used to investigate the carob galactomannan-kappa carrageenan binary gels.
(9) Fortunately the dog seems miraculously OK after his chocolate liqueur (it was probably carob).
(10) The central Algarve coastline has been relentlessly developed, but even here there are havens of old Portugal with its carob, fig and almond trees, where time treads softly and slowly and life’s pleasures are priced with locals in mind.
(11) The diets contained 10% of gum guar (GG), carob bean gum (CBG), Na-alginate (Na-A), agar-agar (AA) or carrageenan (C), respectively.
(12) X-ray fibre diffraction studies of furcellaran-carob, furcellaran-tara, and furcellaran-konjac mannan mixed gels have failed to reveal any evidence for the predicted intermolecular binding between the algal polysaccharide helix and the galactomannan or glucomannan (konjac) mannan).
(13) From tofu and tamari to carob and chickpeas, the axis of the vegetarian shopping list is heavily skewed to global.
(14) We tasted varieties from the vats – heady orange blossom, rich carob, lavender, and thyme – and drank several shots of melosa , a honey-infused medronho , the local liquor made from the fruit of the strawberry tree.
(15) Digoxin was given together with a formula diet containing as admixture, respectively, wheat bran, microcrystalline cellulose, pectin, carrageenan, and carob seed flour.
(16) A simple assay procedure for beta-D-mannanase enzyme has been developed which employs carob D-galacto-D-mannan dyed with Remazolbrilliant Blue.
(17) In 11 normal female subjects, ages 19 to 22 years, the postprandial serum vitamin A concentration was measured 3, 5, 7, and 9 hr after oral administration 300,000 IU vitamin A-palmitate given with a formula diet to which was added 40 g wheat bran, 40 g microcrystalline cellulose, 15 g apple pectin, 15 g guar flour, 15 g carob bean flour, or 20 g carrageenan.
(18) Birds flitted in and out of the olive trees and shadows drowsed around the swimming pool beneath the ancient carob tree.
(19) After carob seed flour, the concentrations were significantly (P less than 5%) higher, as compared to the control.
(20) The growth medium provided 2.4% carob sugar, 0.72% NH4H2PO4, and 0.03% MgSO4-7H2O.
Karob
Definition:
(n.) The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths.