Gumbo ingredient (4 letters)

{ Answer }

OKRA

{ Related Clues }

Gumbo
Vegetable
Callaloo ingredient
Gumbo component
Gumbo pods
Gumbo vegetable
Pod plant
Poddy plant
Pods for soups
Some pods
Soup base
Soup green
Soup pod
Soup pods
Soup vegetable
Stew ingredient
Tapered pods
Cajun cuisine vegetable
Creole cooking pod
Pods often pickled
Southern soup ingredient
Vegetable in Cajun cuisine
Food that may be pickled
Vegetable sometimes grown as a flower
Vegetable that's often fried
Plant called lady's-finger in England

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base, cajun, creole, cuisine, green, gumbo, ingredient, its, often, okra, pickled, plant, pod, podded, pods, some, soup, southern, staple, thickener, vegetable

{ Notes }

The answer OKRA is seen frequently, appearing about once every 90 puzzles.

{ Definition }

OKRA as a noun:

1. long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant

2. (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

3. (gumbo, okra) = long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews