lima bean; butter bean
Refers to the legume Phaseolus lunatus. In Japanese cooking, it may appear in salads, stews, or as a side dish.
Lima beans go well in stews.
サラダにライマメを加えると、食感が良くなります。
Adding lima beans to a salad improves the texture.
Katakana spelling is standard for this loanword; usually written in kana.
Kanji spelling is rare; the word is almost always written in kana.
Borrowed from English 'lima bean', adapted into Japanese as ライマメ.