gumbo

noun

a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

long mucilaginous green pods

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

any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Roots

kingombogumbo- · other · okra

Synonyms for gumbo

burgoon soupn chowdern bouillabaissen mulligatawnyn potagen minestronen pottagen vichyssoisen bisquen

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Synonyms for gumbo

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Where does gumbo come from?

The word gumbo breaks down into one root of other origin: the root gumbo-, from other kingombo (“okra”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.