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Definition of Locust pod

1. Noun. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Locust Pod

Literary usage of Locust pod

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
"If we open a locust pod just before maturity, we may wonder why the seeds cling so tenaciously to the pod. The seed stalk seems out of all proportion to the ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... of the honey locust, but very narrow" hardly the fourth of an inch in width, thin and flat; and instead of the sweet reddish pulp of the locust pod, ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"... all produce the long locust-pod, which, with honey, is said to have constituted St. John's only sustenance in the wilderness. If so, the Apostle had not ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"... algarroba produce the long locust-pod, a staple article of food with the Chaco Indians, who pound it up and make it into a very sustaining bread. ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"The three species of algarroba produce the long locust-pod, a staple article of food with the Chaco Indians, who pound it up and make it into a very ..."

6. The Mechanics' Magazine (1857)
"The vegetable here alluded to U the Carob or locust pod, sometimes called St. John's Bread. The patentee dries the bean pod, grinds it with edge runners, ..."

7. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"Just as guano from Peru was turned into English corn, or bones from the Pampas into English roots, so the Syrian locust-pod, the Egyptian bean, ..."

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