scarlet runner

Noun

• long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain

• hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers

• tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  scarlet runner bean , runner bean , English runner bean , running postman , Kennedia prostrata , Dutch case-knife bean , Phaseolus coccineus , Phaseolus multiflorus