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Noun: Phaseolus coccineus
  1. 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, Dutch case-knife bean, runner bean, Phaseolus multiflorus

Type of: pole bean

Encyclopedia: Phaseolus coccineus