indian bean   (TTS Sound)

The noun indian bean has 2 senses

• catalpa, Indian bean -- (tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods)


• hyacinth bean, bonavist, Indian bean, Egyptian bean, Lablab purpureus, Dolichos lablab -- (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)