mung Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    Vigna radiata; golden gram; mung bean; green gram; Phaseolus aureus.

WordNet

Mung noun
Etymology
Hind. mng.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Webster 1913