gumbo
Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsulesSynonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
» She cooked a gumbo with black-eyed beans.
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3 senses(countable)Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
(countable)A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
(uncountable)A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
Examples
2 sentencesShe cooked a gumbo with black-eyed beans.
The goat makes the gumbo; the rabbit eats it.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu iBorrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.
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Forms
plural: gumbosSynonyms
6 synonyms- long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews:okra
- any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water:gumbo soil
- 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:okraokra plantlady's-fingerAbelmoschus esculentusHibiscus esculentus
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.