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.
- synonyms: okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus
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