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mung bean plant, n.

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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Phaseolus aureus Vigna radiata mung mung bean mung bean plant

semantic pointers

part meronym

mung bean, mung, green bean, green gram, golden gram, moong, mash bean, munggo, monggo, green soy mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, moong, mash bean, munggo, monggo, green soy, green bean

hypernym

legume, leguminous plant

member holonym

Vigna, genus Vigna