Noun: 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
"They harvested fresh lady's-finger for their gumbo recipe";
- okra, gumbo [N. Amer], okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, bhindi [Asia]
Derived forms: lady's-fingers
Type of: herb, herbaceous plant
Part of: Abelmoschus, genus Abelmoschus