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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



... for making things over. He wasn't really hungry, for nobody can starve in a small town in South Carolina; folks are too kindly, too neighborly, too generous, for anything like that to happen. They have a tactful fashion of coming over with a plate of hot biscuit or a big bowl of steaming okra-and-tomato soup. ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler


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


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