soil vs gumbo

soil and gumbo both are nouns.

soil is a verb but gumbo is not a verb.

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

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

soil: 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 soil 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.

soil (noun)	gumbo (noun)
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state	a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)	long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
anything regarded as making something unclean	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
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock	any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

soil (verb)	gumbo (verb)
make soiled, filthy, or dirty

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