butter-bean plant

English Thesaurus

1. bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	shell bean, shell bean plant,
definition	:	a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	butter bean, butterbean, civet bean, sieva bean,
definition	:	small flat green bean similar to lima beans (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus phaseolus, phaseolus,
definition	:	herbs of warm regions including most American beans (noun.plant)