: an erect bushy annual bean (Vigna radiata synonym Phaseolus aureus) that is widely cultivated in warm regions for its edible usually green or yellow seeds, for forage, and as the chief source of bean sprouts
also
: its seed
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Adzuki Beans Adzuki beans, or red mung beans, are widely used in Asian cooking.
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Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2024
Once again, Gan links inner with outer artfully, lacing silky mung bean paste with bursts of lychee fruit and dustings of rose petal fragments.
—Ingu Chen, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
Some producers add mung beans or mung bean flour to edamame pasta.
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—Johna Burdeos, Health, 4 Sep. 2024
For dessert, there’s Mango Rice, Jackfruit Rice and Khmer Mochi, filled with mung bean and topped with coconut sauce and Thnot Sugar.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
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Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2024
Once again, Gan links inner with outer artfully, lacing silky mung bean paste with bursts of lychee fruit and dustings of rose petal fragments.
—Ingu Chen, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
Some producers add mung beans or mung bean flour to edamame pasta.
3.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 4 Sep. 2024
For dessert, there’s Mango Rice, Jackfruit Rice and Khmer Mochi, filled with mung bean and topped with coconut sauce and Thnot Sugar.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for mung bean
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“Mung bean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mung%20bean. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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