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Catalpa

noun
1.
Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.  Synonym: Indian bean.



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"Catalpa" Quotes from Famous Books



... have seemed a pleasure party, save for the stress of their speed, as they swept by the groves of poplar and catalpa, which bordered the broad flood, to the sound of the waters only and the song of the birds in the wood; water-lilies floated in the pools along the shore; currents of fragrance were blown out to them ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... May, as I have said, the thermometer is reported at something not far short of eighty degrees, and that in as much shade as can possibly be had in the street in which I write, which is a brick street of New York, with one catalpa-tree in it,—a poor, vegetable fakir, standing on his one leg at a distance of about three blocks from "our corner," and sprawling out all round with his shrivelled hands, as if to catch the passing robe of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... getting by mail packages of seeds from Freeport and from the old country. Then the flowers! There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks. Beside the fruit trees there was a great umbrella-shaped catalpa, and a balm-of-Gilead, two lindens, and even a ginka,—a rigid, pointed tree with leaves shaped like butterflies, which shivered, but never bent to ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather



Words linked to "Catalpa" :   bean tree, Catalpa bignioides, Indian bean, Catalpa speciosa



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