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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
