Bean vs. Mung — What's the Difference?

A bean is the seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes throughout the world.

The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.

Any of various twining herbs of the genus Phaseolus in the pea family, native to the Americas, having leaves with three leaflets and variously colored flowers, and widely cultivated for their edible pods and seeds.

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.

A seed or pod of any of these plants.

To harm, to damage; to destroy.

Any of several related plants or their seeds or pods, such as the adzuki bean, broad bean, or soybean.

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.

Any of various other plants or their seeds or fruits, especially those suggestive of beans such as the coffee bean or vanilla bean.

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

(Slang) A person's head.

Beans(Slang) A small amount

Chiefly British A fellow; a chap.

To hit (another) on the head with a thrown object, especially a pitched baseball.

Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.

The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).

The edible seedpod of such a plant.

(by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.

(by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.

(slang) The head or brain.

(slang) The clitoris.

A person.

A guinea coin.

Money.

(software) JavaBean

To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae

Any of various seeds or fruits suggestive of beans

Any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods

Informal terms for a human head

Hit on the head, esp. with a pitched baseball