American English pronunciation

How to pronounce gumbo

IPA transcription: ['ɡʌmboʊ]

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Noun

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

  • 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

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

  • a soup or stew thickened with okra pods