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[Anglo-Ind., prob. He carries a horse-cloth, a telescope, a bag of gram (part for himself and part for his horse), and odds and ends useful on a march. W. H. Ru ell , Diary in India, II. 345. Green gram, the Phaseolus Mungo , largely cultivated in India as a food crop o Horse-gram, the Dolichos bilo rus, an East Indian food-plant. - Mozambique gram, the Bambarra groundnut, Voandzeia subterrane a, resembling the common peanut, and imported from Mozambique into western India. gram. An abbreviation of grammar. gram. [= D. Dan. Sw. -gram = G. -gramm = F.- gramme = Sp. -grama = Pg. It. -gramma,