1. A soup or stew thickened with okra pods
   "The Louisiana restaurant was famous for its seafood gumbo"
    
2. 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
   "They harvested fresh okra for their gumbo recipe"; "The okra plant produced abundant pods for gumbo";
   - okra, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, bhindi [Asia]
    
3. Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sautéed but used especially in soups and stews
   "She added sliced okra to thicken the gumbo";
   - okra, bhindi [Asia]
    
4. Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
   "Farmers in the region struggled with their crops due to the prevalence of gumbo soil";
   - gumbo soil

Derived forms: gumbos

Type of: dirt, herb, herbaceous plant, soil, soup, veg [Brit, informal], vegetable, veggie [informal]

Part of: Abelmoschus, genus Abelmoschus

Encyclopedia: Gumbo, Nicholas