bean sprout

1. 1.

   any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans

   Broadersprout

Questions about bean sprout

What does bean sprout mean?

bean sprout means "any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans".

Is bean sprout a common word?

bean sprout is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.