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gum·bo /ˈgʌmboʊ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[guhm-boh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -bos, adjective
–noun 1. a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
2. okra.
3. soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet.
–adjective 4. of, pertaining to, or like gumbo.


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[Origin: 1795–1805, Americanism; < LaF gombo, gumbo < a Bantu language; cf. Umbundu ochinggombo, Luba chinggombo okra]
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Gum·bo /ˈgʌmboʊ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[guhm-boh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun (sometimes lowercase) a French patois spoken by blacks and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

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n. pl. gum·bos

Chiefly Southern U.S. See okra. See Regional Note at goober.
A soup or stew thickened with okra pods. Also called okra.
Chiefly Mississippi Valley & Western U.S. A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.
Gumbo A French patois spoken by some Black people and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.


[Louisiana French gombo, of Bantu origin; akin to Tshiluba ki-ngumbo, okra.]


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n.

A tall tropical Asian annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus) widely cultivated in warm regions for its edible, mucilaginous green pods.
The edible pods of this plant, used in soups and as a vegetable. Also called regionally gumbo.
See gumbo.


[Of West African origin; akin to Akan (Twi) nkruma.]


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gumbo

1805, from Louisiana Fr., probably ult. from Central Bantu dialect (cf. Mbundu ngombo "okra").

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noun
1. any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
2. 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 [syn: okra]
3. long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
4. a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

釋義
n.
1. 【植】秋葵
2. 加有秋葵的濃湯
3. 黏土

gumbo
同義參見:
soup

變化形
gumbo
名複: gumbos

gumbo (n)

Meaning
1. 【植】秋葵
2. 加有秋葵的濃湯
3. 黏土