'Indian bean' definitions:
Definition of 'Indian bean'
(from WordNet)
noun
Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods [syn: catalpa, Indian bean]
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 [syn: hyacinth bean, bonavist, Indian bean, Egyptian bean, Lablab purpureus, Dolichos lablab]
Definition of 'Indian bean'
From: GCIDE
- Catalpa \Ca*tal"pa\, n. [From the language of the Indians of Carolina, where Catesby discovered this tree in the year 1726.] (Bot.) A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best known species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the Catalpa speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean. [1913 Webster]