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[syn: mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mung \Mung\ (m[u^]ng), n. [Hind. m[=u]ng.] (Bot.)
Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) (Vigna radiata syn.
Phaseolus aureus, syn. Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food
in British India; called also gram, mung bean, Chinese
mung bean, and green-seeded mung bean. It is an erect,
bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and
edible pods and young sprouts. --Balfour (Cyc. of India).
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mung bean \Mung" bean`\ (m[u^]ng" b[=e]n`), n.
The mung (Vigna radiata).
[PJC]
2. The bean produced by the mung.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Vigna radiata
n 1: erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of
India and Indonesia and United States for forage and
especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts
used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus
Phaseolus [syn: mung, mung bean, green gram, golden
gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus]