*mung*

n. [ Hind. mūng. ] (Bot.) Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) (Vigna radiata syn. Phaseolus aureus, syn. Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India; called also gram, mung bean, Chinese mung bean, and green-seeded mung bean. It is an erect, bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and edible pods and young sprouts. Balfour (Cyc. of India). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mung (Vigna radiata). [ PJC ]

2. The bean produced by the mung. [ PJC ]

n. Same as Mangcorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, -- a distinction often disregarded. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ Mungo properly signifies the disintegrated rags of woolen cloth, as distinguished from those of worsted, which form shoddy. The distinction is very commonly disregarded. Beck (Draper's Dict.). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) See Mongoose. [ 1913 Webster ]