(Geol.) A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. & a. See Mongrel. [ 1913 Webster ]