1) a little horn
2) 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.
Part of Speech: noun neuter
G2769
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G2768; something horned, that is, (specifically) the pod of the carob tree: - husk.
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