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Noun: mung  múng
  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
    - mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus
Verb: mung  múng
  1. (computing) modify or fake an email (or other internet) address so it cannot be automatically harvested, esp. to avoid spam bots
     
  2. (computing) change a file; make irrevocable changes, destroy, obfuscate

Derived forms: mungs, munged, munging

Type of: legume, leguminous plant

Part of: genus Vigna, Vigna

Encyclopedia: Mung