gumbo

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A soup or stew thickened with okra pods.
• noun Chiefly Mississippi Valley & Western US A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.
• noun A French patois spoken by some black people and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The pod of Hibiscus esculentus, also called okra.
• noun A soup, usually of chicken, thickened with okra.
• noun A dish made of young capsules of okra, seasoned with salt and pepper, and stewed and served with melted butter.
• noun A patois spoken by West Indian and Louisianian creoles and negroes.
• noun A type of soil in the southern and western United States which forms a tough, dark-colored mass in a high degree plastic and clay-like, yet sometimes consisting chiefly of silt or very fine sand. It is very sticky and difficult to till when wet, and when dry breaks into hard cuboidal lumps. See gumbo clay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
• noun The okra plant or its pods.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable The okra plant or its pods.
• noun uncountable A soup or stew made with okra.
• noun uncountable A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
• noun long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
• noun a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
• 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