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GENUS CATALPA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dicotyledonous genus of plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae; has large flowers (white or mottled) and long terete pods
Classified under:
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)
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