Associations to the word «Mung»

Wiktionary

MUNG, noun. A type of small bean.
MUNG, noun. The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.
MUNG, verb. (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.
MUNG, verb. (by extension) (informal) to destroy
MUNG BEAN, noun. The seed of Vigna radiata which is native to Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan
MUNG BEANS, noun. Plural of mung bean

Dictionary definition

MUNG, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats