phaseolus lunatus

Questions about phaseolus lunatus

What does phaseolus lunatus mean?

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

What is another word for phaseolus lunatus?

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

phaseolus lunatus 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.