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Definition of Catalpa
1. Noun. Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.
Group relationships: Genus Catalpa
Specialized synonyms: Catalpa Bignioides, Catalpa Speciosa
Generic synonyms: Bean Tree
Definition of Catalpa
1. n. 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.
Definition of Catalpa
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catalpa
1. a tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catalpa
Literary usage of Catalpa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"ORIGIN OF THE HYBRID catalpa as follows, quoting from Sargent: "JC The history
of the original hybrid is Teas of Carthage, Mo., while living in Indiana in ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"catalpa Scop. Introd. 170. 1771. Trees, or some exotic species shrubs, ...
Type species: Bignonia catalpa L. West Indian trees referred to this genus prove ..."
3. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Hardier and better formed trunks than afforded by C. catalpa. ... The species is
not related to but is sometimes confused with catalpa. ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"catalpa—contd. 1819 In the gardens [of New Orleans] frequently spread their —Arthur
... which, as well as catalpa, the received umbrage the pride of China, ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"catalpa. Pod terete. Fertile stamens only 2. Tree«; leaves simple. 8. ... (C.
catalpa Karst.) — Naturalized from NY southw. ; indigenous on the Gulf coast. ..."
6. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"CHAPTER XIV catalpa DISEASES THE two species of catalpa grow naturally in
southeastern and central United States. Both species are used as ornamentals. ..."
7. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1905)
"catalpa CRAZE. More than one hundred years ago when the fear of a timber ...
The wood of catalpa has been credited with possessing great durability in ..."
8. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1900)
"There is no woolly aphis on the catalpa, no fungi, no codling-moth, cot even
palatable eating for a mule. As there are two distinct varieties of the ..."
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