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Webster 1913 Edition

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

Noun.

A large tree of Carolina and the South, which in blossom has a beautiful appearance. It belongs to the genus Bignonia, or trumpet flower.