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karob

karob is the archaic form of carob.

Meaning of carob

Noun

carob (countable and uncountable, plural carobs)

  1. An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. A sweet chocolatelike confection made with the pulp of the fruit of this tree.

Noun

karob (plural karobs)

  1. The twenty-fourth part of a grain; a weight used by goldsmiths.

Forms of karob

pluralkarobs

Questions about karob

What does karob mean?
Karob means the twenty-fourth part of a grain; a weight used by goldsmiths.
What is karob the archaic form of?
Karob is the archaic form of carob.
What part of speech is karob?
Karob is a noun.
What is the plural of karob?
The plural of karob is karobs.

Words near karob in the dictionary

  1. karns
  2. Karnses
  3. Karnul
  4. karo
  5. Karo Batak
  6. karob
  7. karobs
  8. Karofsky
  9. karogram
  10. karoid
  11. Karojba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: karob (page history and authors); carob (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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