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Okra   Listen
noun
Okra  n.  
1.
(Bot.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus syn. Hibiscus esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. (Written also ocra and ochra)
2.
The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo.





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"Okra" Quotes from Famous Books



... okra is made the famous gumbo soup, which ever calls to vision a colored aunty presiding over the mysteries of a Southern dinner. If Aunt Dinah, so well known to us from the pages of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," could have left her receipt ...
— The Home Acre • E. P. Roe


Words linked to "Okra" :   veg, gumbo, Hibiscus esculentus, herb, seedpod, veggie, lady's-finger, pod, Abelmoschus esculentus, okra plant, genus Abelmoschus


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