civet bean

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   small flat green bean similar to lima beans

   Synonymssieva beanbutter beanbutterbean

   Broadershell bean

   Part ofsieva bean

Questions about civet bean

What does civet bean mean?

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

What is another word for civet bean?

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

civet bean 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.