mung bean

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mung bean
    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}]

from 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]

from 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]

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