MOONG, MOONGO, s. Or. 'green-gram'; Hind. mūng, [Skt. mudga]. A kind of vetch (Phaseolus Mungo, L.) in very common use over India; according to Garcia the mesce (māsh?) of Avicenna. Garcia also says that it was popularly recommended as a diet for fever in the Deccan; [and is still recommended for this purpose by native physicians (Watt, Econ. Dict. vi. pt. i. 191)].

c. 1336. — "The munj again is a kind of māsh, but its grains are oblong and the colour is light green. Munj is cooked along with rice, and eaten with butter. This is what they call Kichrī (see KEDGEREE), and it is the diet on which one breakfasts daily." — Ibn Batuta, iii. 131.

1557. — "The people were obliged to bring hay, and corn, and mungo, which is a certain species of seed that they feed horses with." — Albuquerque, Hak. Soc. ii. 132.

1563.-

"Servant-maid. — That girl that you brought from the Deccan asks me for mungo, and says that in her country they give it them to eat, husked and boiled. Shall I give it her?

"Orta. — Give it her since she wishes it; but bread and a boiled chicken would be better. For she comes from a country where they eat bread, and not rice."— Garcia, f. 145.

[1611. — ". . . for 25 maunds Moong, 28m. 09 p." — Danvers, Letters, i. 141.]