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How to pronounce “catalpa”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of catalpa with real speech in context.
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Real speech example: Let Your Garden Grow WildLong ago at Brooklyn Bridge Park, our catalpa trees got covered in aphids.
Definition summary: Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.

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Let Your Garden Grow Wild

Long ago at Brooklyn Bridge Park, our catalpa trees got covered in aphids.

[Noun]
Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.