indian bean

Questions about indian bean

What does indian bean mean?

indian bean means "tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for indian bean?

Close synonyms include catalpa, hyacinth bean, bonavist, Egyptian bean, Lablab purpureus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indian bean a common word?

indian bean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.