okra plant

Questions about okra plant

What does okra plant mean?

okra plant means "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".

What is another word for okra plant?

Close synonyms include okra, gumbo, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is okra plant a common word?

okra plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.