butterbean

Questions about butterbean

What does butterbean mean?

butterbean means "small flat green bean similar to lima beans".

How many syllables are in butterbean?

butterbean has 4 syllables and divides as but-ter-be-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for butterbean?

Close synonyms include sieva bean, butter bean, civet 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 butterbean a common word?

butterbean 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.