单词 | okra |
释义 | okra (once / 26383 pages) n WORD FAMILY okra: okras USAGE EXAMPLESOne example is okra, with its slimy quality that many find disagreeable. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) Plus some amethyst-colored eggplants, a couple of heads of aromatic elephant garlic and some deep magenta okra. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) She grew okra, too, and grapes and squash, eggplant and pomegranates. Washington Times(Nov 24, 2016) 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, gumbo, lady's-finger, okra plant herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant Hyper pod, seedpod a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant 3n long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews Syn|Hyper gumbo veg, vegetable, veggie edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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