mung bean plant

Questions about mung bean plant

What does mung bean plant mean?

mung bean plant means "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".

What is another word for mung bean plant?

Close synonyms include mung, mung bean, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus. 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 mung bean plant a common word?

mung bean plant 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.