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
• Syn: ↑mung, ↑mung bean, ↑green gram, ↑golden gram, ↑Vigna radiata
• Hypernyms: ↑legume, ↑leguminous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Vigna, ↑genus Vigna
Useful english dictionary. 2012.