Mung \Mung\ (m[u^]ng), n. [Hind. m[=u]ng.]

(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. --Balfour (Cyc. of India). [1913 Webster]

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Mung \Mung\, n. [Hind. m?ng.]

(Bot.) Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. --Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)