noun
1. bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds
• Syn: ↑butter bean, ↑butter-bean plant, ↑lima bean, ↑Phaseolus lunatus
• Hypernyms: ↑shell bean, ↑shell bean plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Phaseolus, ↑genus Phaseolus
• Part Meronyms: ↑butter bean, ↑butterbean, ↑civet bean
2. small flat green bean similar to lima beans
• Syn: ↑butter bean, ↑butterbean, ↑civet bean
• Hypernyms: ↑shell bean
• Part Holonyms: ↑butter bean, ↑butter-bean plant, ↑lima bean, ↑Phaseolus lunatus
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/see"veuh/.
See butter bean.
[1885-90, Amer.; perh. alter. of seewee or sewee bean, prob. after the Sewee, an extinct American Indian tribe of E South Carolina]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.