Meaning Of The Word Butter bean

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butter bean
Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.

butter bean in American English
any of various light-colored beans, as a lima bean or wax bean
noun: a variety of small-seeded lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus, grown in the southern U.S.

butter bean in British English
noun: a variety of lima bean that has large pale flat edible seeds and is grown in the southern US

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