gumbo

noun

1. 1.A soup or stew made with okra.
2. 2.A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
3. 3.The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
4. 4.The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.