gumbo

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gumbo

A chef stirs a pot of gumbo on the stove.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A soup or stew thickened with okra: A type of dish, often associated with Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, that uses okra pods as a key thickening agent.
    • Okra pods: The long, mucilaginous green seed pods of a plant, used as a vegetable, especially in soups and stews.
    • The okra plant: A tall, coarse annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus) cultivated for its edible green pods.
    • A type of soil: Any of various fine-grained, silty soils that become very sticky and waxy when wet.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Dish):
  • Noun (Vegetable):
  • Noun (Plant):
  • Noun (Soil):
Advanced Usage
  • "Gumbo file" (or filé powder): A seasoning made from dried and ground sassafras leaves, often used to thicken and flavor gumbo after it is removed from heat.
  • As a modifier to describe consistency:
Variants and Related Words
  • Gumbo soil (n): Synonymous with the soil meaning; a sticky, clayey soil.
  • Okra (n): The more common term for the vegetable and plant meanings of "gumbo."
  • Gumbo-limbo (n): A completely different, unrelated tree (), native to tropical Americas.
Synonyms
  • Soup/Stew meaning: Stew, chowder, bisque.
  • Vegetable meaning: Okra, lady's finger.
  • Soil meaning: Clay soil, adobe, sticky soil, mud.
Related Phrases
  • Gumbo pot: A large pot used for making gumbo.
  • Gumbo party: A social gathering where gumbo is the featured dish.
Related Idioms
  • "Slower than gumbo": An expression, particularly in the Southern US, meaning something is very slow-moving or tedious, akin to the thick, slow-pouring consistency of the stew or the impediment of the sticky soil.
gumbo

A chef stirs a pot of gumbo on the stove.

Noun
  1. a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
  2. long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
  3. tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
  4. any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

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