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(noun) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods |
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Related Words: soup |
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(noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews |
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Synonyms: okra |
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Related Words: vegetable, veggie |
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(noun) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water |
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Synonyms: gumbo soil |
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Related Words: dirt, soil |
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(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; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus |
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Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant |
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Related Words: herb, herbaceous plant |
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