Catawba Definition

kə-tôbə
catawbas
noun
A member of a North American Indian people now living in N South Carolina.
Webster's New World
The Siouan language of this people.
Webster's New World
A cultivated variety of the fox grape, widely grown in the E U.S.
Webster's New World
A wine made from this grape.
Webster's New World

Original and alternate common name for the various species of catalpa trees Catalpa.

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pronoun

A Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.

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(uncountable) The language of this people.

Wiktionary
A river in the Carolinas which rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains and flows approximately 220 miles (350 km) before joining the Wateree River and ultimately flowing into the Atlantic.
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Other Word Forms of Catawba

Noun

Singular:
Catawba
Plural:
catawbas

Origin of Catawba

  • From Catawba catawba (“catalpa tree”). See also catalpa.

    From Wiktionary

  • From catawba, as the tree was the people's totem.

    From Wiktionary

  • After the Catawba (River)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Catawba Sentence Examples

  • In the Mountain Region and in the Piedmont Plateau Region the rivers have numerous falls and rapids which afford a total water power unequalled perhaps in any other state than Maine on the Atlantic Coast, the largest being on the Yadkin, Roanoke and Catawba; and in crossing some of the mountains, especially the Unakas, the streams have carved deep narrow gorges that are much admired for their scenery.

  • The ground was originally the property of Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863), a wealthy citizen and well-known horticulturist, who here grew the grapes from which the Catawba wine, introduced by him in 1828, was made.

  • The Catawba is the chief growth of the Lake Erie district; the other important vines being the Delaware and Concord.

  • In the middle section the Santee river is formed by the confluence of the Wateree, which is known in North Carolina as the Catawba, and the Congaree, which is in turn formed by the Broad and the Saluda, and the basin of this system embraces about one-half the area of the state.

  • Catawba Tree (Catalpa Speciosa) - A forest tree in America, westwards, and is little known in England yet, though promising to be a forest tree; reaches 120 feet high in its own country.

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