runner bean

runner bean
noun
1. tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑pole bean
2. long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑green bean

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noun also runner (-s)
chiefly Britain : scarlet runner

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Brit.
See string bean (defs. 1, 2).
[1780-90]

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runner bean UK US noun [countable] [singular runner bean plural runner beans]
a long green bean that grows on a tall climbing plant and is cooked and eaten
Thesaurus: beans, lentils and peashyponym types of food or drinkhypernym

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runner bean,
a climbing bean plant; runner.

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ˌrunner ˈbean [runner bean] (also ˌstring ˈbean) noun (both BrE)
a type of ↑bean which is a long flat green ↑pod growing on a climbing plant also called a runner bean. The pods are cut up, cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
See also: ↑string bean

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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