Definition of Mung bean

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.

Exact synonyms: Golden Gram, Green Gram, Mung, Phaseolus Aureus, Vigna Radiata
Generic synonyms: Legume, Leguminous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Vigna, Vigna

Definition of Mung bean

1. Noun. the seed of Vigna radiata which is native to Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mung Bean

mundifying
mundil
mundils
mundite
mundivagant
mundrabillaite
munds
mundungo
mundungos
mundungus
mundunguses
munerary
muneration
munerations
mung
mung bean (current term)
mung bean nuclease
mung beans
munga
mungbean
mungcorn
mungcorns
munge
munged
munges
munging
mungo
mungoes
mungoos
mungoose

Literary usage of Mung bean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"mung bean (Phaseolus aureus). — The mung bean is native to southern Asia. ... In these countries the mung bean is grown mainly for the seed which is an ..."

2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"mung bean (Phaseolus aureus). — The mung bean is native to southern Asia. ... In these countries the mung bean is grown mainly for the seed which is an ..."

3. Gene Expression in Horticultural Crops: Bibliography January 1991-October 1992 by Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"shoots or mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) hypocotyls. ... In mung bean hypocotyls, aminooxyacetic acid, a potent inhibitor of ACC ..."

4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1907)
"mung bean. From United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, India, July 8, ... mung bean. From Nagpur, Central Provinces, India, 1903. ..."

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