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Gumbo

noun

Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water. Synonym: 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. Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant.

Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews. Synonym: okra.

A soup or stew thickened with okra pods.

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"Gumbo" Quotes from Famous Books

... opportunity to make experiment of the new system. The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo. Time passed on. A dark and lowering night was imminent. The Bishop grew anxious. Macmillan, with whip and voice, encouraged his team, but all in vain. The Bishop's anxiety increased with the approach ...

— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor

... leases of two good farms soon fall in and I may manage them myself. Then I own the marsh, which feeds some sheep and cattle in summer. The soil's good alluvial, like the gumbo on the Manitoba plains, and would grow heavy crops if one could keep out the water. Well, we have seen small homesteaders draining Canadian muskegs, a long haul from a railroad, while we have a good market for all farming truck in two hours' ride. The ...

— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss

Words linked to "Gumbo" : Abelmoschus, herb, veggie, soil, veg, herbaceous plant, soup, vegetable, genus Abelmoschus, dirt