noun
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
• Syn: ↑okra, ↑gumbo, ↑okra plant, ↑Abelmoschus esculentus, ↑Hibiscus esculentus
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Abelmoschus, ↑genus Abelmoschus
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\\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun (plural lady's-fingers) : any of various plants with finger-shaped parts: as
a. : any of several legumes (as kidney vetch or bird's-foot trefoil)
c. : okra
Useful english dictionary. 2012.