gumbo

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Chiefly Southern U.S. See okra. See Regional Note at goober.
2. n. A soup or stew thickened with okra pods. Also called okra.
3. n. Chiefly Mississippi Valley & Western U.S. A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.
4. n. A French patois spoken by some Black people and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The pod of Hibiscus esculentus, also called okra.
2. n. A soup, usually of chicken, thickened with okra.
3. n. A dish made of young capsules of okra, seasoned with salt and pepper, and stewed and served with melted butter.
4. n. A patois spoken by West Indian and Louisianian creoles and negroes.
5. n. 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.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. A thick stew made with chicken (chicken gumbo), or seafood (seafood gumbo), thickened with okra or file, and also containing greens and often hot spices; it is particularly popular in Louisiana.
2. n. The okra plant or its pods.

WordNet 3.0

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