any of various trees having beanlike pods, such as the catalpa and carob
bean tree in American English
US
any of various trees, as the catalpa or carob, bearing podlike fruit
bean tree in American English
noun
1.
any of several trees bearing pods resembling those of a bean, as the catalpa and the carob tree
2.
the laburnum, Laburnum anagyroides
Word origin
[1610–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1610–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: decoy, integration, squelch, technical, telescope