POLE BEAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A climbing bean plant that will climb a wall or tree or trellis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pole bean" is a kind of...):

bean; bean plant (any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pole bean"):

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