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catalpa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bignonia \Big*no"ni*a\, prop. n. [Named from the Abb['e] Bignon.]
(Bot.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. Bignonia capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper (also called the trumpet vine), with large red tubular flowers, was formerly considered to be of this genus, but is now classified as Campsis radicans.
any member of the family Bignoniaceae, including the bignonia[1], catalpa, trumpet creeper, and princess tree. They typically have brightly colored tubular (trumpet-shaped) flowers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1740, from an American Indian language of the Carolinas, perhaps Creek (Muskogean) /katalpa/, literally "head-wing."
Wiktionary
n. Any tree of the genus ''Catalpa'', the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, (taxlink Catalpa bignonioides species noshow=1), and the northern catalpa, (taxlink Catalpa speciosa species noshow=1) — along with the yellow catalpa, (taxlink Catalpa ovata species noshow=1), 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.
WordNet
n. tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods [syn: Indian bean]
Wikipedia
Catalpa, commonly called catalpa or catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.
Catalpa is Jolie Holland's debut album from 2003. The tracks were recorded in the living room of one of the band members with the intention of distributing the recordings among their friends. Inevitably, copies of the recordings were passed from person to person and demand increased for a commercial release of the album. Catalpa was initially released on the Anti Records label and distributed through CDbaby.com. In 2003, the San Francisco Chronicle chose Catalpa as one of the 10 best albums of that year.
Catalpa may refer to:
- Catalpa, the tree
- Catalpa, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
- Catalpa (Greenfield, Iowa), listed on the NRHP in Iowa
- Catalpa (St. Francisville, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
- Catalpa Farm, Princess Anne, MD, listed on the NRHP in Maryland
- Catalpa Plantation, Culpeper, Virginia
- Catalpa Festival, held in New York City
- Catalpa rescue, a historical incident involving a ship named Catalpa
- Catalpa (album), an album by Jolie Holland
Catalpa was an 18th-century plantation near Culpeper in Culpeper County, Virginia. Catalpa is best known as the birthplace of John Strode Barbour, Jr. (29 December 1820 – 14 May 1892), a United States House Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. Catalpa is also known as the scene of the first encampment of the Culpeper Minutemen.
Catalpa, also known as Wallace Farm, is a historic farm located southeast of Greenfield, Iowa, United States. It is associated with Henry Cantwell Wallace, who owned and operated the influential agricultural publication Wallace's Farmer, and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1921-1924). It is also associated with his son Henry Agard Wallace, who followed his father at the newspaper and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1940), Vice President of the United States (1941-1945) and U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1945-1946). He was the Progressive Party candidate for president in 1948. This was one of several farms owned by the Rev. Henry Wallace, Henry Cantwell's father. It was acquried by the family in 1877, and it was operated by a tenant farmer until Henry Cantwell took it over. His son Henry Agard was born here in 1888. After five years Henry Cantwell returned to his studies at Iowa State University in Ames and the family left the farm at that time. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The designation includes the farmhouse and outbuildings, which are modest frame structures with gable roofs, and a plot of farmland. The house and barn were built before the Wallace's moved here in 1887.
Usage examples of "catalpa".
We can clear away all this litter and plant a catalpa tree to hide the brickyard and a hedge of copernicus or nux vomica to hide the gravel pit, and some bright flowers to hide the hedge.
From the crevices of this rock the catalpa was every where pushing forth, covered with its beautiful blossom.
I went up it with my eye, limb by limb, a great catalpa rich in caterpillars and long seed-pods which we dried and smoked behind the stables.
Two slim Lombardy poplars and a broadleaved catalpa shaded the southern side, and a kitchen-garden, divided in the centre by a double row of untrimmed currant-bushes, flanked it on the east.
The statue is not the work of Phidias, but its dark, rocky background, the flowery catalpas which shadow it, and the bright shower through which it shows itself, altogether make the scene one of singular beauty.
One evening, while the rest of my party went to visit some objects which I had before seen, I agreed to await their return in this square, and sat down under a magnificent catalpa, which threw its fragrant blossoms in all directions.
The last Seed-Pods hang, black and unbreach'd, from the Catalpa Trees.
Yet I lie here Soothed by a secret none but Mary knows: There is a garden of acacia, Catalpa trees, and arbors sweet with vines-- There on that afternoon in June By Mary's side-- Kissing her with my soul upon my lips It suddenly took flight.
It might 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.
Shelter was afforded by catalpas and plane trees such as you might find, I suppose, in any small Dutch town.
Next minute, the flames were in the catalpas above our heads, and smoke blew across the scene.
On it were heaps of apples, peaches, and a soft, fleshy fruit that looked vaguely like a catalpa pod, unfamiliar to Garric.
She had shinned four-fifths up the guy wire on the leaning catalpa tree that shaded the corner of the house.
They stood among flowering catalpa and Osage orange and Potter was looking down at what appeared to be the deep tracks of wagon wheels.
That was the rhododendron in the eighteenth century--and the camellia, the hydrangea, the wild cherry, the rudbeckia, the azalea, the aster, the ostrich fern, the catalpa, the spice bush, the Venus flytrap, the Virginia creeper, the euphorbia.