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 Definitions of gumbo  [ˈgʌm boʊ]  

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Definition of 'gumbo' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) gumbo
a soup of chicken or seafood, greens, and seasonings, usu. thickened with okra.

2.  gumbo
soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet.

3. (n.) Gumbo
(sometimes l.c.)


Definition of 'gumbo' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) gumbo, gumbo soil
any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

2. (noun) okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus
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

3. (noun) gumbo, okra
long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

4. (noun) gumbo
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods


Definition of 'gumbo' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) gumbo
a soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup

2. (noun) gumbo
the okra plant or its pods



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