BEAN SPROUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bean sprout mean? 

• BEAN SPROUT (noun)
  The noun BEAN SPROUT has 1 sense:

1. any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans

  Familiarity information: BEAN SPROUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAN SPROUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bean sprout" is a kind of...):

sprout (a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed))

 Context examples 

A type of bean grown in warm climates, usually for its seed and for bean sprouts.

(Mung bean, NCI Dictionary)