vigna radiata

Noun

Synonyms: mung mung bean green gram golden gram Vigna radiata Phaseolus aureus

WordNet 3.0

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: mung mung bean green gram golden gram Vigna radiata Phaseolus aureus

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

Mung bean \Mung" bean`\ (m[u^]ng" b[=e]n`), n. The mung (Vigna radiata). [PJC]

2.The bean produced by the mung. [PJC]