Examples of runner bean

• I understand that it is netting that is stretched out among the hops in the same way as one uses such nets for runner beans to run up.

• He had three rows of runner beans.

• Runner beans contain traces of the poisonous lectin, "phytohaemagglutinin", found in common beans.

• Its secondary hosts, on which it spends the summer months, include a number of crops including sugar beet, spinach, beans, runner beans, celery, potatoes, sunflowers, carrots, artichokes, tobacco and tomatoes.

• Green peas and runner beans were not wasted, but allowed to mature crops of seed, which would otherwise have been in short supply owing to the cessation of imports.

• His body is no thicker than a propelling pencil, his legs no thicker than runner beans.