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
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long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
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Okra \O"kra\, n. 1. (Bot.) An annual plant ({Abelmoschus esculentus} syn. {Hibiscus esculentus}), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also {ocra} and {ochra}.]
2. The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
One stock in trade is gumbo, a nourishing soup which derives from an African word for okra, the vegetable which forms the main ingredient.
Some traditionally green and yellow vegetables have gone to red and yellow, including green beans with purple pods named "Royal Burgundy," a purple cauliflower named "Royal Purple," and an okra with deep red pods, simply called red okra.
Some traditionally green and yellow vegetables have gone to red and yellow, including green beans with purple pods named "Royal Burgundy," a purple cauliflower named "Royal Purple," and an okra with deep red pods, simply called red okra.
The report said products in the "loser" category _ meaning imports from the CBI countries declined _ included green beans, cucumbers, eggplant, frozen cauliflower and frozen okra.
Besides okra, virtually anything can go into gumbo - and does. One favoured element is andouille sausage.
Charles L. Webber III of the department's Agricultural Research Service said kenaf, a bamboo-like relative of cotton and okra, would be grown throughout the South and Southwest.
With pointed tails or swallowtails, the jackets over knickers or fuller pants came out in hot-pepper red, aubergine orange or okra green, with big ruffled jabots for the aristocratic touch.
Singers range from 87-year-old Leonard Lacy to 19-year-old Jeffrey Wootten, and a mouth-watering noon meal of fried okra, turnip greens, chicken and other favorites is set out.