| genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers | a soup or stew thickened with okra pods |
| | long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews |
| | 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 |
| | any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water |