Akademik

butter bean

noun

1. bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds

• Syn: ↑sieva bean, ↑butter-bean plant, ↑lima bean, ↑Phaseolus lunatus

• Hypernyms: ↑shell bean, ↑shell bean plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Phaseolus, ↑genus Phaseolus

• Part Meronyms: ↑sieva bean, ↑butterbean, ↑civet bean

2. small flat green bean similar to lima beans

• Syn: ↑sieva bean, ↑butterbean, ↑civet bean

• Hypernyms: ↑shell bean

• Part Holonyms: ↑sieva bean, ↑butter-bean plant, ↑lima bean, ↑Phaseolus lunatus

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noun, pl ⋯ beans [count]

1 US : a kind of small, flat bean : a small lima bean

2 Brit : a lima bean that is dried before it is sold

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ˈbutter bean [butter bean] noun

a large pale yellow ↑bean. Butter beans are often sold dried.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.