gumbo
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
Types & categories
- dirt hypernym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- herb hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Abelmoschus member holonym
- gumbo part meronym
- okra part meronym
Sense 3 noun
long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
Types & categories
- vegetable hypernym
Parts & wholes
- okra plant part holonym
Sense 4 noun
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
Types & categories
- soup hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dirt |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Abelmoschus |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | gumbo |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | okra |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | herb |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | okra plant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | vegetable |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | soup |