GREEN GRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green gram mean? 

• GREEN GRAM (noun)
  The noun GREEN GRAM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GREEN GRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN GRAM (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

golden gram; green gram; mung; mung bean; Phaseolus aureus; Vigna radiata

Hypernyms ("green gram" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Holonyms ("green gram" is a member of...):

genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)