Megan Lynch (she/her)
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MSc in Hort & Ag, UC Davis. Frugiphile. Vegetative almond bud development. Ongoing interdisciplinary research on carob (Ceratonia siliqua). Disabled. Advocate for accessibility. she/her Banner description: Carob botanical illustration by Pierre Joseph Redouté Profile photo description: Me looking over my bifocal glasses. #NoBot
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Do we have any Latin scholars here who can tell me what the Latin word is for "carob"?
Various online dictionaries are coming up blank, but I know they had carob trees and pods around then and that they were in some sort of use so there must be language for that.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4254221
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