Found 2 items, similar to Mung.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mung
mung
n : 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 bean,
green gram,
golden gram,
Vigna radiata,
Phaseolus aureus]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mung
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]