Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phaseolus_aureus

1 sense of phaseolus aureus

Sense 1
mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus -- (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)
       => legume, leguminous plant -- (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)