neuter of a presumed derivative of G2768; something horned, i.e. (specially) the pod of the carob-tree:--husk.
a little horn
the name of the fruit, Ceratonia silqua or carobtree (called also John's Bread [from the notion that its pods, which resemble those of the "locust", constituted the food of the Baptist]. This fruit was shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was and is used not only for fattening swine, but as an article of food by the lower classes.
