A vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob (locust beans) and used as a food additive; chemically, it is a galactomannan.

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.

(medicine) A heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient.

(literary, formal) beautiful.

If your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side.

(US) peanut

(theater, film) The smallest division of action in a play, film or other work of drama; The moment at which increasing dramatic tension produces a noticeable change in the consciousness of one or more characters.

A white kidney bean.

a long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.

Lacking a beard. / (by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful. / Destitute of an awn. / (ornithology) Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).