bean vs carob

bean and carob both are nouns.

bean is a verb but carob is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bean	Yes	No	Yes	No
carob	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, carob is a hyponym of bean; that is, carob is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bean:

bean: any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
carob: long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute

Other hyponyms of bean include coumara nut, tonka bean, algarobilla, algarroba, algarrobilla, calabar bean, ordeal bean, divi-divi, algarroba, algarroba bean, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod, soy, soya bean, soybean, broad bean, fava bean, horsebean, golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo.

bean (noun)	carob (noun)
informal terms for a human head	powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute
any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food	evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob
any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods	long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans

bean (verb)	carob (verb)
hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball

Difference between bean and carob

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