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noun

Okra n.

(Bot.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus syn. Hibiscus esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. (Written also ocra and ochra)

The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo.

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Etymology of 'Okra'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Okra" Quotes from Famous Books

... I planted more than a gill of beans; and yet I must have already pulled some ten quarts, and will get nearly as many more, which will make a yield of more than 300-fold! I shall save some of the seed. The cabbages do not head, but we use them freely when we get a little bacon. The okra flourishes finely, and gives a flavor to the soup, when we succeed in getting a shin-bone. The red peppers are flourishing luxuriantly, and the bright red pods are really beautiful. The parsnips look well, but I have not yet pulled any. I shall sow turnip seed, where the potatoes ...

— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... necessaries of life. Sweet potatoes were peeled, then cut in small pieces and put out in the sun to dry. They were then used as a substitute for coffee, when that article became so scarce, toward the close of the war. Great quantities of this preparation were used. Okra was another substitute for coffee. It was dried in the pod, then the seeds shelled out, and these were dried again and prepared something as the coffee is. This made a delicious drink when served with cream, being very rich and pleasant to the taste. Quinine was a medicine ...

— Thirty Years a Slave • Louis Hughes

Words linked to "Okra" : pod, gumbo, herb, okra plant, vegetable, lady's-finger, genus Abelmoschus, veg, herbaceous plant, veggie, seedpod