【医】 瓜秋葵

[ noun ]
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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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.]