Definitions For Okra

noun

• Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
• 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 green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
• A tall plant whose pods are eaten as a vegetable and are used in soups and stews ; also : the pods of this plant