Noun: 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
"The okra plant produced abundant pods for gumbo";
- okra, gumbo [N. Amer], lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, bhindi [Asia]
Derived forms: okra plants
Type of: herb, herbaceous plant
Part of: Abelmoschus, genus Abelmoschus