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 • Syn: mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Phaseolus aureus • Hypernyms: legume, leguminous plant • Member Holonyms: Vigna, genus Vigna