scarlet runner

American  

noun

1. a twining, South American bean plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having clusters of scarlet flowers.

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scarlet runner British  

noun

1. Also called: runner bean.   string bean.  a climbing perennial bean plant, Phaseolus multiflorus (or P. coccineus ), of tropical America, having scarlet flowers: widely cultivated for its long green edible pods containing edible seeds

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Etymology

Origin of scarlet runner

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

I put some scarlet runner beans from the Hollywood Farmers Market over it to symbolize the gathering cultures of Native American tribes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

I would submit that a larger-caliber bean, such as a scarlet runner or corona, adds to the grandeur here.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Kids gather in the leafy shade of a bean teepee to draw the scarlet runner beans they’d trained up the bamboo poles.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2016

I know not what prodigy of the vegetable kingdom produced the little duckling; but the plant with the shells must, I think, have been a scarlet runner, and the shells themselves the papilionaceous blossoms.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

The annual vines are mostly used as flower-garden subjects, as the sweet pea, morning-glories, mina, moonflowers, cypress vine, nasturtiums, cobea, scarlet runner.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)