Indian bean Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods
    catalpa.
  2. noun perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
    hyacinth bean; bonavist; Dolichos lablab; Egyptian bean; Lablab purpureus.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name of the catalpa.

Webster 1913