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Definition of Civet bean
1. Noun. Small flat green bean similar to lima beans.
Generic synonyms: Shell Bean
Group relationships: Butter Bean, Butter-bean Plant, Lima Bean, Phaseolus Lunatus, Sieva Bean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Civet Bean
Literary usage of Civet bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Wilhelm Miller, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"SIEVA or civet bean. Figs. 1741- 4. Small and slender, usually not climbing very
high : Ifts. thin, short and broad, ovate - pointed (except in special ..."
2. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"LIMA BEAN. Known by its broad and flat, curved or scymitar-shaped pods, with few
and large flat seeds. The civet bean is a small variety of it. P. lunatus. ..."
3. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum by John Barnard Swett Jackson (1870)
"It was about the size of a civet bean, and in parts quite as thick; very rough,
and almost spiculated on one side, and only unequal on the other, ..."
4. Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War by Philippine Commission (1900-1916, United States (1907)
"Allium cepa, Linn. A vegetable grown throughout Luzon and the Visayan Islands.
The bulb and leaves are used in cookery. SIEVA or civet bean. ..."
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