Catawba

Meanings

1. A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.
2. A red American dessert grape variety.

1. The language of the Eastern Siouan family spoken in eastern United States.
2. A river in North Carolina and South Carolina, United States.

1. The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.
2. A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape.
3. Any of various species of America catalpa trees Catalpa especially (Catalpa bignonioides (southern catalpa) or Catalpa speciosa (northern catalpa).
4. The catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense).

Etymology

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