mung, mung bean, mung bean plant, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus
(noun) 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
mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, moong, mash bean, munggo, monggo, green soy, green bean
(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mung (plural mungs)
A type of small bean.
The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.
Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.
mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)
(computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
(by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.
Source: Wiktionary
Mung, n. Etym: [Hind. m.] (Bot.)
Definition: Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. Balfour (Cyc. of India).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
