Gumbo

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * okra, ladies' fingers

Thesaurus
adhesive, adobe, albumen, amylaceous, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, burgoo, butter, chicken soup, chowder, clabber, clabbered, clam chowder, clammy, clay, clayey, clayish, clear soup, clotted, coagulated, consomme, cornstarch, cream, curd, curdled, dough, doughy, earthy, egg drop soup, egg white, fish soup, gaum, gaumy, gazpacho, gel, gelatin, gelatinous, glair, glairy, glop, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, goo, gooey, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel, grumous, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, inspissated, jam, jell, jelled, jellied, jelly, jellylike, julienne, loamy, loblolly, marly, matzo ball soup, minestrone, mire, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucilaginous, muck, mucus, mud, mulligatawny, ooze, oxtail soup, pap, paste, pasty, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, ropy, semifluid, semiliquid, size, slabby, slime, slimy, slip, slithery, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, soily, soup, squash, starch, starchy, sticky, sticky mess, stock, stodgy, stringy, swill, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick soup, thickened, thin soup, tomato soup, tough, treacle, tremelloid, tremellose, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, viscid, viscose, viscous, won ton soup

Etymology
ngombo:, kingombo:. Cognate to quiabo:, Caribbean  guingambó:, and cognates in other Romance languages.

Translations

 * Portuguese: quiabeiro (plant), quiabo  (pods)