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
   "The farmer's mung bean plant crop was ready for harvest";
   - mung, mung bean, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus

Type of: legume, leguminous plant

Part of: genus Vigna, Vigna