单词 | butter bean |
释义 | butter beann. Any of several varieties of lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus, which have large, flat, yellow-white seeds; any of several varieties of French bean, P. vulgaris, and runner bean, P. coccineus, which have yellow-white seeds or pods. Also: the seeds of such a plant used as food. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants French bean1542 kidney bean1548 fasels1562 frijoles1568 Welsh bean1585 longbean1587 cock stone1631 haricot1653 string-bean1759 snap-bean1770 bunch-bean1787 butter bean1820 bush-bean1821 snaps1845 navy bean1851 cannellini1862 flageolet1877 wax bean1905 pinto bean1913 wax-pod bean1921 borlotti1932 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > kidney beans kidney bean1548 fasels1562 frijoles1568 Welsh bean1585 longbean1587 haricot1653 string-bean1759 snapc1770 butter bean1820 snap-bean1870 flageolet1877 sieva1888 pinto bean1913 pinto1918 borlotti1932 soldier bean1968 1820 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Gaz. 3 Mar. (advt.) One of our Country Friends..has left some of the following kinds [of Garden Seeds] for sale..Poppy, Snap Beans, Butter Beans, &c. 1821 W. Cobbett Amer. Gardener (new ed.) iv. §197 The Lima-bean..which is sometimes called the butter-bean, has a broad, flat and thin seed of a yellowish-white colour. 1869 Arthur's Home Mag. May 302/2 Butter-beans make the best string-beans. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants at Bean Butter Bean, a tender-podded variety of Phaseolus vulgaris. 1904 Daily Chron. 28 Jan. 6/1 I asked for butter-beans; they offered me the little white haricot instead. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) I. 244/1 Pods without green colouring…are known as waxpod or Butter Beans, but they are not to be confused with the Butter Beans of the grocer. 1983 J. Autry Nights under Tin Roof i. 32 While Aunt Callie snapped peas or shelled butterbeans he would peel an apple. 2001 J. T. Hallinan Going up River iv. 41 She was standing in her garden, chopping weeds around her butter beans. 2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 July 56/1 Serve it with polenta or butter beans in the winter and Italian couscous or crusty peasant bread in the summer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1820 |
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