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GUMBO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soup or stew thickened with okra pods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):
soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
Synonyms:
gumbo; okra
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Holonyms ("gumbo" is a part of...):
Abelmoschus esculentus; gumbo; Hibiscus esculentus; lady's-finger; okra; okra plant (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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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; gumbo; Hibiscus esculentus; lady's-finger; okra; okra plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Meronyms (parts of "gumbo"):
gumbo; okra (long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews)
okra (long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant)
Holonyms ("gumbo" is a member of...):
Abelmoschus; genus Abelmoschus (genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
Synonyms:
gumbo; gumbo soil
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):
dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)