okra plant
- noun
- /ˈoʊkrə plænt/
- Specialized
:
quimbombó
- The okra plant thrives in warm climates.
Examples
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The okra plant thrives in warm climates with plenty of sunlight and moisture.
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The leaves of the okra plant are large and coarse, making it easy to identify.
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She grew several okra plants in her backyard garden to use fresh pods in gumbo.
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I love cooking with okra plants from my garden.
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The okra plant thrives in warm climates and produces long, green pods that are popular in Southern cooking.
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We grew an okra plant in our garden, and now we can harvest the pods for gumbo and stir-fries.
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After planting the okra plant, it took several weeks for the pods to grow big enough to pick.
Synonyms
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4.0
A vegetable with long green pods used in soups and stews
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5.6
A plant with long green pods that people eat as a vegetable
A tall plant that makes green edible pods called okra used in cooking
A tall plant grown for its edible green pods called okra
A vegetable plant that makes long green pods used in soups and stews, also called okra
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward noun phrase: 'okra' (a vegetable with long green pods) + 'plant' (a multicellular photosynthetic organism) yields the plant that produces okra. This compositional, literal relationship is cross-linguistically common and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Okra plant likely comes from a West African word for okra, the slim, green pod. Cooks brought its finger-like pods and used the whole plant to thicken stews like 'gumbo', so the name now means the tall plant with edible green pods.