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Definition of Golden gram
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.
Generic synonyms: Legume, Leguminous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Vigna, Vigna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Gram
Literary usage of Golden gram
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1905)
"Bellingham, T : W : golden gram. [Bangor, Mich.,] T: W: Bellingham, [1904.] c.
160 p. por. 12°, cl., 60 с. Bloomfield, Maurice. Cerberus, the dog of Hades ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1871)
"... prove the best wheat- growing tract in the valley of Utah Lake, and that ere
long it will be dotted over with farm-houses and fields of golden gram. ..."
3. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"Then, leaving this rocky chasm, it flows onward past fields of green pastures or
golden gram, sparkling and murmuring as it pursues its cheerful way, ..."
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