catalpa

See also: Catalpa

English

Southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, in flower

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈtælpə/

Etymology

• A variant of catawba that originated when Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, the describing botanist, incorrectly transcribed the name.
• Sometimes alternatively said to derive from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Creek word like katałpa.

Noun

catalpa (plural catalpas)

1. Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, , and the northern catalpa, — along with the yellow catalpa, , 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.

Derived terms

• catalpic

Translations

any tree of the genus Catalpa

• Hungarian: szivarfa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: catalpa f
• Russian: катальпа (ru) f (katalʹpa)

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Italian

Noun

catalpa f (plural catalpe)

1. catalpa

Anagrams

• placata