scarlet runner

Questions about scarlet runner

What does scarlet runner mean?

scarlet runner means "tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for scarlet runner?

Close synonyms include scarlet runner bean, Dutch case-knife bean, runner bean, Phaseolus coccineus, Phaseolus multiflorus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scarlet runner a common word?

scarlet runner is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.