Noun has 2 senses

• indian bean(n = noun.plant) catalpa - tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods;




• indian bean(n = noun.plant) bonavist, dolichos lablab, egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, lablab purpureus - 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;