gumbos

Noun

• any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
• 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 mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
• a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
• plural of gumbo

Synonyms

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