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gumbo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gumbo has 4 senses
- gumbo(n = noun.substance) gumbo soil - any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water; Array is a kind of dirt, soil
- gumbo(n = noun.plant) abelmoschus esculentus, hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant - 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; Array has parts: gumbo, okra, okra
- gumbo(n = noun.food) okra - long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews; Array is a kind of veg, vegetable, veggie
- gumbo(n = noun.food) Array - a soup or stew thickened with okra pods; Array is a kind of soup
is a member of abelmoschus, genus abelmoschus
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
is a part of abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
gumbo, n. [Written also gombo.].
- A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. [1913 Webster]
- The okra plant or its pods. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gumbo, n. (pl. -os) US 1 okra.
2 a soup thickened with okra pods.
3 (Gumbo) a patois of Blacks and Creoles spoken esp. in Louisiana.
2 a soup thickened with okra pods.
3 (Gumbo) a patois of Blacks and Creoles spoken esp. in Louisiana.
Etymology
of Afr. orig.
THESAURUS
gumbo
adhesive, adobe, albumen, amylaceous, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, burgoo, butter, chicken soup, chowder, clabber, clabbered, clam chowder, clammy, clay, clayey, clayish, clear soup, clotted, coagulated, consomme, cornstarch, cream, curd, curdled, dough, doughy, earthy, egg drop soup, egg white, fish soup, gaum, gaumy, gazpacho, gel, gelatin, gelatinous, glair, glairy, glop, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, goo, gooey, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel, grumous, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, inspissated, jam, jell, jelled, jellied, jelly, jellylike, julienne, loamy, loblolly, marly, matzo ball soup, minestrone, mire, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucilaginous, muck, mucus, mud, mulligatawny, ooze, oxtail soup, pap, paste, pasty, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, ropy, semifluid, semiliquid, size, slabby, slime, slimy, slip, slithery, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, soily, soup, squash, starch, starchy, sticky, sticky mess, stock, stodgy, stringy, swill, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick soup, thickened, thin soup, tomato soup, tough, treacle, tremelloid, tremellose, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, viscid, viscose, viscous, won ton soup
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