Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.

synonym: catalpa.

Polish: katalpa, surmia

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.

synonyms: bonavist, Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Lablab purpureus.