GUMBO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gumbo mean? 

• GUMBO (noun)
  The noun GUMBO has 4 senses:

1. any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

2. 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. long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

4. a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

  Familiarity information: GUMBO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUMBO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

gumbo; gumbo soil

Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):

dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abelmoschus esculentus; gumbo; Hibiscus esculentus; lady's-finger; okra; okra plant

Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "gumbo"):

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

okra (long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant)

Holonyms ("gumbo" is a member of...):

Abelmoschus; genus Abelmoschus (genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

gumbo; okra

Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Holonyms ("gumbo" is a part of...):

Abelmoschus esculentus; gumbo; Hibiscus esculentus; lady's-finger; okra; okra plant (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)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A soup or stew thickened with okra pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("gumbo" is a kind of...):

soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)