butter-bean plant

Questions about butter-bean plant

What does butter-bean plant mean?

butter-bean plant means "bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds".

What is another word for butter-bean plant?

Close synonyms include sieva bean, butter bean, lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus. 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 plant a common word?

butter-bean plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.