phaseolus aureus
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Noun (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 PhaseolusSynonyms: mungmung beanmung bean plantVigna radiataType of legume, leguminous plantParts mung bean, mungMember of Vigna, genus Vigna
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“phaseolus aureus” is listed under Mung.
Mung (mŭng), noun
Origin: Hind. mūng.
Botany 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. Edward Balfour
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54