scarlet runner bean

Questions about scarlet runner bean

What does scarlet runner bean mean?

scarlet runner bean 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 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for scarlet runner bean?

Close synonyms include scarlet runner, 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 bean a common word?

scarlet runner bean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.