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What is a catalpa?

What is a catalpa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any tree of the genus Catalpa, the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, 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.
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The garden is planted with exotic catalpa trees which provide it with original blooms in the flowering season.
This is the northern catalpa, a native to the central Mississippi River Valley but found in 17 states across the U.S. and in southern Canada.
The motionless figure of a man leaning against a gigantic catalpa twenty feet off appeared, half-veiled by the foliage.
The tired, sun-burnt hills of summer have awoken with a new, hopeful greenness and the catalpa trees are flowering with huge white orchid-like flowers in the village squares.
The jacaranda, flowering catalpa, and wisteria were among the finds made by Compton's missionaries in the Carolinas.
Across the street, down near Sixteenth, were the remnants of a catalpa that refused to die.

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