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Noun
- a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
- long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
- 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
- any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water