ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mung

Definition & Meaning

Pronunciation /mʌŋ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Mung is a noun meaning mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.

Meaning

mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.

More Meanings

  1. (by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.
  2. (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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bean, nuclease, hypocotyls, moong, mungbean, beansprout.

Related Dictionary Tools

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.