lima bean

Questions about lima bean

What does lima bean mean?

lima bean means "bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for lima bean?

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

lima bean is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.