dirt vs gumbo

dirt and gumbo both are nouns.

dirt is an adjective but gumbo is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dirt	Yes	Yes	No	No
gumbo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gumbo is a hyponym of dirt; that is, gumbo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dirt:

dirt: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
gumbo: any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Other hyponyms of dirt include marl, regosol, residual clay, residual soil, surface soil, topsoil, subsoil, undersoil, alluvial soil, bog soil, clay, clunch, desert soil, desertic soil, caliche, hardpan, fuller's earth, gilgai soil, gumbo soil, humus, indurated clay, Indian red, laterite, loam, loess, mold, mould, clay, mud, bole, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil, prairie soil, sand, sedimentary clay, silt, boulder clay, till, tundra soil, wiesenboden.

dirt (noun)	gumbo (noun)
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people	a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
anything regarded as making something unclean	long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock	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
obscene terms for feces	any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

dirt (adjective)	gumbo (adjective)
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

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