butter bean

Questions about butter bean

What does butter bean mean?

butter bean means "bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butter bean?

Close synonyms include sieva bean, butter-bean plant, lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus, sieva bean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butter bean a common word?

butter bean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.