- okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus - 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
--1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
--1 is a member of Abelmoschus, genus Abelmoschus
--1 has parts: gumbo, okra; okra