[ noun ] (chemistry,food) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

[ noun ] (botany) 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

[ noun ] (geology) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

[ noun ] (food) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods