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legume vs mung

mung vs legume

legume and mung both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
legume Yes No No No
mung Yes No No No
As nouns, mung is a hyponym of legume; that is, mung is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
  • mung: 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
Other hyponyms of legume include Arachis hypogaea, peanut, peanut vine, chickpea, chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea, cluster bean, Cyamopsis psoraloides, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, guar, Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant, wild pea, Lens culinaris, lentil, lentil plant, Dolichos biflorus, horse grain, horse gram, Macrotyloma uniflorum, poor man's pulse, crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed, bean, bean plant, pea, pea plant, sesbania, vetch, moth bean, Phaseolus aconitifolius, Vigna aconitifolia, adsuki bean, adzuki bean, Phaseolus angularis, Vigna angularis, corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, snailflower, Vigna caracalla, mung bean, mung bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata, black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata, asparagus bean, Vigna sesquipedalis, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean.
legume (noun) mung (noun)
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae 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
the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant
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