butter bean

noun

a variety of small-seeded lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus, grown in the southern U.S.

Midland and Southern U.S. any type of lima bean.

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Also, but·ter·bean.

Origin:
1810–20

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butter bean

—n
	a variety of lima bean that has large pale flat edible seeds and is grown in the southern US

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