Word Meanings - PHASEOLUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.

Related words: (words related to PHASEOLUS)

• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• KIDNEY-FORM; KIDNEY-SHAPED
  Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.
• LEGUMINOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants , which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas. (more info) 1. Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• RUNNER
  A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
• KIDNEY
  A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney
• KIDNEYWORT
  A kind of saxifrage . The navelwort.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SCARLET
  A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color. 2. Cloth of a scarlet color. All her household are clothed with scarlet. Prov. xxxi. 21. (more info) (cf. Pr. escarlat, escarlata, Sp. & Pg.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• OVERRUNNER
  One that overruns. Lovelace.
• FAT-KIDNEYED
  Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• FORERUNNER
  A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in
• OUTRUNNER
  An offshoot; a branch. "Some outrunner of the river." Lauson.
• MARCOBRUNNER
  A celebrated Rhine wine.