1. 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
   - okra, gumbo [N. Amer], okra plant, lady's-finger, Hibiscus esculentus

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: Abelmoschus, genus Abelmoschus

Encyclopedia: Abelmoschus esculentus

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