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
   "Fresh mung bean sprouts are essential in many Asian dishes"; "The farmer's mung bean plant crop was ready for harvest";
   - mung, mung bean plant, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus
    
2. Seed of the mung bean plant used for food
   "They sprouted mung beans for a healthy addition to salads";
   - mung, green bean, green gram, golden gram, moong, mash bean, munggo, green soy, moong bean

Derived forms: mung beans

Type of: bean, edible bean, legume, leguminous plant

Part of: genus Vigna, Vigna

Encyclopedia: Mung bean