| NOUN | plant | Hibiscus esculentus, okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus | 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 |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus | |
| Member of | Abelmoschus, genus Abelmoschus | genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers |
| Parts | gumbo, okra | long mucilaginous green pods |
| okra | long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant | |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
| Spanish | abelmoschus esculentus, chimbombó, guingambó, Hibiscus esculentus, molondrón, ñajú, okra, quimbombó, quingombó | |
| Catalan | abelmoschus esculentus, Abelmoschus esculentus, ocra | |
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