Definitions for Catalpa

Catalpa ca·tal·pa

Spelling: [kuh-tal-puh]
IPA: /kəˈtæl pə/

Catalpa is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in Catalpa (aaaclpt).

Definitions for Catalpa

noun

  1. any of several trees constituting the genus Catalpa, of the bignonia family, especially C. speciosa, of the central U.S., or C. bignonioides, of the southern U.S., having opposite, sometimes whorled leaves, clusters of white flowers, and long, beanlike seed pods.

Origin of Catalpa

1720-30, Americanism; (New Latin) Creek katałpa, equivalent to ka-, combining form of iká head + tałpa wing (apparently so called from the shape of the flower)

Examples for Catalpa

A swirl of dust laden with the scent of the catalpa blew up from the street.

And, David, tea under the catalpa, as we always do on fine nights.

As she walked ankle-deep in the unclipped grass under the catalpa and elm-trees, she looked around with eager interest.

The leaves of a catalpa, across the roadway, hung motionless.

The Indian then gently supported him, and seated him against the trunk of the catalpa, at whose foot he had been hitherto lying.

They like white and yellow jessamine, too, and catalpa flowers and lilies and acacia blossoms.

These flowers, which resemble the blossom of the catalpa, constitute one of the crests of the Mikado of Japan.

Probably ninety per cent of all the catalpa ever cut has gone into fence posts.

I am not the man you knew—except in loving you I am not the man who sat with you beneath the catalpa.

catalpa is a tree singularly free from destructive diseases.

Word Value for Catalpa
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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