MUNG BEAN PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mung bean plant mean? 

• MUNG BEAN PLANT (noun)
  The noun MUNG BEAN PLANT has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUNG BEAN PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mung; mung bean; mung bean plant; Phaseolus aureus; Vigna radiata

Hypernyms ("mung bean plant" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "mung bean plant"):

golden gram; green bean; green gram; green soy; mash bean; monggo; moong; mung; mung bean; munggo (seed of the mung bean plant used for food)

golden gram; green bean; green gram; green soy; mash bean; monggo; moong; mung; mung bean; munggo (seed of the mung bean plant; used for food)

Holonyms ("mung bean plant" is a member of...):

genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)