GENUS CATALPA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Catalpa mean? 

• GENUS CATALPA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CATALPA has 1 sense:

1. a dicotyledonous genus of plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae; has large flowers (white or mottled) and long terete pods

  Familiarity information: GENUS CATALPA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CATALPA (noun)

Meaning:

A dicotyledonous genus of plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae; has large flowers (white or mottled) and long terete pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Catalpa" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Catalpa"):

catalpa; Indian bean (tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods)

Holonyms ("genus Catalpa" is a member of...):

Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)