| a soup or stew thickened with okra pods | genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers |
| 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 | |