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Definitions of okra in various dictionaries:
noun - long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
noun - 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
noun - long mucilaginous green pods
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Plant also called lady's-finger |
Gumbo |
Southern soup ingredient |
Gumbo ingredient |
Soup pods |
Creole vegetable |
Gumbo plant |
Gumbo vegetable |
Stew ingredient |
Some pods |
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In the South, this vegetable that thickens gumbo is also eaten fried |
In Barbados, you'll go cuckoo for cou-coo, a mix of cornmeal & this essential gumbo veggie |
Like gumbo, a stew called burgoo is traditionally thickened with this vegetable |
This gumbo ingredient is popular in the Middle East, where it's known as bamia |
This green pod, often a gumbo ingredient, is also called gumbo |
A favorite is fritters made from this West African pod vegetable |
Integral to many Creole dishes, this green pod is related to cotton & is high in calcium |
Gumbo gets its name from an African word for this gumbo ingredient |
When coated in cornmeal & fried, these green gumbo pods lose much of their sliminess |
Used in Southern cooking, it's the edible pod seen here |
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a plant of the mallow family with long ridged seed pods, native to the Old World tropics. |
the small green pods from a tropical plant eaten as a vegetable or used to make foods such as soup thicker, or the plant itself |
a plant with long, green pods ( seed containers) that are used as a vegetable |
A tall tropical Asian annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus) widely cultivated in warm regions for its edible, mucilaginous green pods. |
The edible pods of this plant, used in soups and as a vegetable. Also called regionally gumbo. |
See gumbo. |
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 |
long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant |
long mucilaginous green pods may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews |
Okra description |
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Okra or okro (US: , UK: ), known in many English-speaking countries as ladies' fingers or ochro, is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It is valued for its edible green seed pods. The geographical origin of okra is disputed, with supporters of West African, Ethiopian, and South Asian origins. The plant is cultivated in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions around the world. |