lady's-finger

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noun plural The kidney-vetch, Anthyllis Vulneraria. The name has also been given to many other plants.
noun One of the hairy appendages of the legs of lobsters, attached to the base of the leg. They are the gills or branchiæ. See exopodite.
noun A kind of confectioners' cake, or of sponge-cake, so named from the long and slender form.
noun A finger-shaped variety of the potato formerly common, small, white, and of delicate flavor.
noun A variety of apple. Also ladyfinger.

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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All was disappointing; for the meadows were beautiful at this season with their summer snow of daisies -- not dead-white snow either, for it was broken by patches of yellow buttercups, crow's-foot, lady's-finger, and vetch, and by the crimson clover flowers and the rusty red of sorrel, and the black pert heads of the nib-wort plaintain, whose black upon the white of ox-eye daisies has the rich tone of ermine.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870