Mung n.  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.
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  Phaseolus aureus
       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, mung bean, green gram, golden
           gram, Vigna radiata]