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noun

Lady's finger n.

pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers.

(Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.

A long, slender variety of the potato.

(Zool.) One of the branchiae of the lobster.

(Bot.) A tall coarse annual (Abelmoschus esculentus) of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern U. S. and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; it is sometimes placed in the genus Hibiscus. Note: different from lady's fingers

Synonyms: okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lady's finger" Quotes from Famous Books

... sea-lavender of North Devon, or any of those rare Mediterranean species which Mr. Johns has so charmingly described in his "Week at the Lizard Point," yet an average cliff, with its carpeting of pink thrift and of bladder catchfly, and Lady's finger, and elegant grasses, most of them peculiar to the sea marge, is often a very lovely ...

— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley

... no sword. Only a little gold-handled poignard with a lady's finger ring set upon the point of the hilt was at his side, and he stood resting easily his hand upon it as he talked, drawing it an inch from its sheath and snicking it back again nonchalantly, with a sound like the clicking of ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett