gumbo

Noun

• a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

• long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

• 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

• any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  okra , okra plant , lady's-finger , Abelmoschus esculentus , Hibiscus esculentus , gumbo soil