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Meanings of runner bean in English
Portuguese
feijão-da-espanha Catalan
mongeta tendra 
Tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain.
Synonyms
Examples for "scarlet runner"
Examples for "scarlet runner"
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Among the pole beans are the pole limas, wax and scarlet runner.
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They hurried up a scarlet runner that led to a slightly raised dais.
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Serve scattered with mint and, if you have them, scarlet runner bean flowers.
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The scarlet runner is a beauty for decorative effects.
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Your truth doesn't overtake the lie-it'sa scarlet runner.
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Serve scattered with mint and, if you have them, scarlet runner bean flowers.
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He adds that M. Villiers has described a spontaneous hybrid, which he calls Phaseolus coccineus hybridus, in the 'Annales de la Soc.
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This plant, the scarlet-runner of English gardeners and the Phaseolus coccineus of Lamarck, originally came from Mexico, as I am informed by Mr. Bentham.
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Scarlet runners ( Phaseolus multiflorus) grew well, and flowered abundantly, but never produced a single pod.
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With Phaseolus multiflorus the tip was hardly sensitive to small squares of attached card, but was sensitive to caustic and to slicing.
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Lastly, the tips of several radicles of Vicia faba and Phaseolus multiflorus were thickly coated with grease for a length of 3 mm.
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Phaseolus multiflorus: tracks left on inclined smoked glass-plates by tips of radicles in growing downwards.
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Phaseolus multiflorus-crossedand self-fertilisedplants, left uncovered in the greenhouse, produced seeds in number (about): 100.
Usage of runner bean in English
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She's about as smart as a runner bean, but that's another story.
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Serve scattered with mint and, if you have them, scarlet runner bean flowers.
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He has put 400 runner bean seeds in, with sweetcorn, onions, beetroot, carrots, potatoes all ready to go.
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Unlike me, Scarlett had a waistline with the circumference of a runner bean and fancied the pants off a bloke with a moustache.
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Judging from my experience, it would be useless to attempt the acclimature of the scarlet- runner bean in Chontales unless the humble-bee were also introduced.
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Beyond it, runner beans a foot long trailed from tall, tall pea-sticks.
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The spaces were carefully packed with overripe peapods and two-foot runner beans.
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Or perhaps you might try runner beans, and add the concept of food-production.
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All the Hallorans shoot up tall, like runner beans; and thick in the bone.
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Runner beans need generous cultivation and will amply repay for the most liberal treatment.
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Wait until the end of the month to sow courgettes and French and runner beans directly.
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The soil is warm enough now to sow sweetcorn, French and runner beans directly into the ground.
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Fuchsias bloom in their front gardens; cabbages and runner beans climb the hillside in orderly rows at their backs.
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Viola and Twidge were seated on the far side next to a trellis of runner beans, looking at menus.
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Last frost dates dictated when it was safe to plant out tender veg such as runner beans and courgettes.
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Runner bean chutney is delicious.