gumbo

1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.Synonyms: okracountable

2. (countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.countable

3. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.Examples: "The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo."; "There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo" roads of the south—gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight."; "The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot."uncountable