'Mung bean' definitions:
Definition of 'mung bean'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
Definition of 'Mung bean'
From: GCIDE
- Mung bean \Mung" bean`\ (m[u^]ng" b[=e]n`), n. The mung (Vigna radiata). [PJC]
- 2. The bean produced by the mung. [PJC]
Definition of 'mung bean'
From: 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]