seewee bean
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sieva bean — 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 … Useful english dictionary
sieva bean — /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] * * * … Universalium
