lady's-finger
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 • Part Meronyms: gumbo, okra
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