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    MUNG BEAN PLANT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 Phaseolusplay

    Synonyms:

    mung; mung bean; mung bean plant; Phaseolus aureus; Vigna radiata

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("mung bean plant" is a kind of...):

    legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

    Meronyms (parts of "mung bean plant"):

    golden gram; green bean; green gram; green soy; mash bean; monggo; moong; mung; mung bean; munggo (seed of the mung bean plant used for food)

    golden gram; green bean; green gram; green soy; mash bean; monggo; moong; mung; mung bean; munggo (seed of the mung bean plant; used for food)

    Holonyms ("mung bean plant" is a member of...):

    genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)

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