Gumbo
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
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
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
Wordset Dictionary
long mucilaginous green pods
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any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- gumbo soillady's-fingerokraokra plant
- plural
- Gumboes
- possessive
- Gumbo's
- pluralpossessive
- Gumboes'