Usage of "gumbo" | TermGallery

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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.

quiabeiro

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

gumbo soil

Usage of gumbo in English

She makes a lot of West Indian curries, gumbo, really nice things. 
 The Guardian 

Place is a real electromagnetic gumbo. He glanced across to another station. 
 Alien: Covenant 

The creoles have introduced a new variety of their own called gumbo. 
 Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ... 

A gumbo patch should not be selected as a location for poultry. 
 The Dollar Hen 

I need to learn how to make a good gumbo and speak French. 
 Ebony 

Come back on Saturday and we'll have seafood gumbo and salmon croquettes, too. 
 Gods go begging 

The young men who court you are like gumbo without pepper or salt. 
 Iron lace 

I pushed on through the clinging, maddening gumbo, slithering and sliding. 
 Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative 

The shrimp gumbo was set out with instructions that it never hit empty. 
 The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr... 

Ground dried sassafras leaves, or filé powder, similarly thickens Louisianan gumbo. 
 On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen 

The spicy fragrance of crawfish gumbo and dirty rice steamed through the house. 
 Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles 

I had a gumbo of actors to work with and enjoy off the set. 
 Ebony 

I could see sunlight strike the blade between the tilting trunks of gumbo-limbo trees. 
 Stiltsville: a novel 

Look, honey, I done shot a coon for the gumbo. 
 Letter to my daughter: a novel 

A box, covered with sheepskin, is called the gumbo box. 
 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself 

File, or gumbo powder, is made by the Choxtaw Indians from young sassafras leaves. 
 Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ... 