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gumbo   (TTS Sound)

The noun gumbo has 4 senses

• gumbo, gumbo soil -- (any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water)


• okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus -- (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)


• gumbo, okra -- (long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews)


• gumbo -- (a soup or stew thickened with okra pods)