mung bean

American  

[muhng] / mʌŋ /

noun

1. a plant, Vigna radiata, of the legume family, cultivated for its edible seeds, pods, and young sprouts.

2. the seed or pod of this plant.

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mung bean British  

/ mʌŋ /

noun

1. an E Asian bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, grown for forage and as the source of bean sprouts used in oriental cookery

2. the seed of this plant

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Etymology

Origin of mung bean

1905–10; earlier moong < Hindi mū̃g, variant of mūg; compare Pali, Prakrit mugga, Sanskrit mudga

Example Sentences

Layer the ingredients in the mold: ½ cup rice, 2 tablespoons mung beans, 1 piece pork belly, 1 tablespoon fried shallot, 2 tablespoons mung bean and ½ cup rice to top it off.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Glass noodles might describe those made with sweet potato or mung bean starches.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2021

They finally determined that a protein from the mung bean, grown mostly in Asia, was the answer.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2019

Dr. Raj, 65, has cooked vegetable curries and biryani, raita, spiced carrot and sprouted mung bean salads and naan or chapati, supplemented with a sweet potato dish with marshmallow, she said, “to add Thanksgiving flavor.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2019

Like a mung bean my body stretched up toward the great grow lamp in the sky, and my case was even more significant because I continued to grow in the dark.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides