green gram

Questions about green gram

What does green gram mean?

green gram means "seed of the mung bean plant; used for food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for green gram?

Close synonyms include mung, mung bean, golden gram, moong, mash bean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is green gram a common word?

green gram is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.