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: but-ter-be-an. The stress falls on "ter".

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.