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noun
mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To harm, to damage; to destroy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: legume, leguminous plant
History
From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).
Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s. Potentially related to mangle.
