carob-bean

The Hausa of Africa use the natural potash which accumulates in dying trenches, or an infusion of carob-bean husks, or even of mimosa, which the most wealthy import from Egypt.

Chapter 6 1994

"Yes," replied I; "and when I awoke, I found on my stomach a die of bone, a play-stick, a green date-stone and a carob-bean, and I know not why she did this."

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

[FN#510] The pad of the carob-bean which changes little after being plucked is an emblem of constancy.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

510 The pad of the carob-bean which changes little after being plucked is an emblem of constancy.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

As for the carob-bean, it signifies, 'The lover's heart is wearied; so be thou patient under our separation, even as Job was patient.'"

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879