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Webster 1913 Edition
Catalpa
Ca-tal′pa
,Noun.
[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 known species are the
Catalpa bignonioides
, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the Catalpa speciosa
, of the Mississipi valley; – called also Indian bean
. Webster 1828 Edition
Catalpa
CATALPA
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Catalpa
Catalpa
See also: catalpa
Translingual
Proper noun
Catalpa f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Bignoniaceae – the catawbas, flowering trees of warm temperate climates.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Bignoniaceae - family; Catalpeae
Hyponyms
- (genus): Catalpa sect. Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides, Catalpa bungei, Catalpa duclouxii, Catalpa fargesii, Catalpa ovata, Catalpa speciosa, Catalpa tibetica; Catalpa × erubescens - nothospecies), Catalpa sect. Macrocatalpa (Catalpa brevipes, Catalpa longissima, Catalpa macrocarpa, Catalpa purpurea) - sections (species)
catalpa
catalpa
See also: Catalpa
English
Southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, in flower
Noun
catalpa (plural catalpas)
- Any tree of the genus Catalpa, the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.
Translations
any tree of the genus Catalpa
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