runner bean   (TTS Sound)

The noun runner bean has 2 senses

• scarlet runner, scarlet runner bean, Dutch case-knife bean, runner bean, Phaseolus coccineus, Phaseolus multiflorus -- (tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain)


• scarlet runner, scarlet runner bean, runner bean, English runner bean -- (long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain)