Hypertext Webster Gateway: "catalpa"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Catalpa \Ca*tal"pa\, n. [From the language of the Indians of
Carolina, where Catesby discovered this tree in the year
1726.] (Bot.)
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best
know species are the {Catalpa bignonioides}, a large,
ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers
and long cylindrical pods, and the {C. speciosa}, of the
Mississipi valley; -- called also {Indian bean}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
catalpa
n : tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white
flowers followed by long slender pods [syn: {Indian bean}]
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