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Definition: Okra |
OkraNoun1. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant. 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. 3. Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
OkraOkra (a word of African origin), Hybiscus esculentus , is a mallow plant. It grows fibrous pods full of round white seeds. It is eaten as a vegetable.
The best okra, like almost all vegetables, is young and fresh right out of the garden. Okra is easy to grow, prolific, and beautiful. Okra is in the hibiscus family, and has very pretty yellow flowers. Okra gets very woody when it gets too mature, so be sure to pick often, even if you stick it in the refrigerator for a few days until you are ready to eat it. Okra is one of the most popular vegetables in late 20th century Japanese cuisine.
Steam okra until tender, either whole or sliced about 1/2 half inch thick. Smother it with butter. Okra can also be boiled with tomatoes, or fried in a cornmeal batter. Okra can also be the thickening agent in gumbo.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Okra."
Synonyms: OkraSynonyms: gumbo (n), lady's-finger (n), okra plant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Okra |
| English words defined with "okra": Brunswick stew ♦ family Malvaceae ♦ gumbo ♦ mallow family, Malvaceae ♦ Ocra. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Okra" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (ochre), German (okra), Serbo-Croatian (okra). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It would be the best city in the world if I could just find some okra. ('Round Midnight; writing credit: David Rayfiel; Bertrand Tavernier) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A migrant farmer harvest ripe okra in a Florida city farm field. Credit: USDA. |  | Calvin Beasley checks okra on his farm near Belzoni, MS. Credit: USDA. |
 | Ben Burkett, Executive Director of the Mississippi Ass'n of Cooperatives accepts a shipment of okra from the Beat 4 Co-op in Macon, MS. Credit: USDA. |  | Okra. Credit: USDA. |
 | Mr. Willie Little picks okra early in the morning for the Beat 4 Coop of which he is a member. Credit: USDA. |  | Earl Shelby picks okra on his farm near Petal, MS. Credit: USDA. |
 | Andrew Miller picks okra on the Miller farm near Macon, MS. Credit: USDA. |  | Mrs Miller picks okra on the Miller Farm near Macon, MS. Credit: USDA. |
 | Mr Jimmy Clark picks Okra for the Beat 4 Coop of which he is a member. Credit: USDA. |  | Okra in the cooler of the Indian Springs Coop vegitable shed. Shed was built with the help of USDA. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Okra" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Okra" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "okra": okra plant. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "okra": okra-filled. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
okra | 231 | chinese okra | 7 |
okra seed | 83 | okra planting | 6 |
okra recipe | 63 | okra pancake | 6 |
agriculture okra | 54 | okra pepsin | 6 |
fried okra | 50 | grow okra | 5 |
pickled okra | 39 | okra picture plant | 5 |
fried okra recipe | 29 | cooking okra | 5 |
okra pickled recipe | 23 | okra gumbo recipe | 5 |
growing okra | 19 | canning okra | 4 |
okra pepsin e3 | 17 | okra red | 4 |
okra plant | 15 | okra soup | 4 |
importer okra | 13 | cook okra | 4 |
okra picture | 10 | fried okra salad | 3 |
okra tomato | 10 | fritters okra | 3 |
okra gumbo | 9 | awareness day day day eskimo frisbee national okra | 3 |
freezing okra | 8 | freeze okra | 3 |
company list okra | 7 | okra pickling | 3 |
okra pickle | 7 | okra salad tomato | 3 |
okra recipe tomato | 7 | canned okra | 2 |
okra seller | 7 | fighting okra | 2 |
okra receipes | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "okra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjellë nga bamje, bamje (gumbo). (various references) | |
Arabic | بامية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бамя (gumbo). (various references) | |
Chinese | 秋葵. (various references) | |
Danish | okra (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers), gombo (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers), abelmoskus (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers). (various references) | |
Dutch | okra (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers), gombo (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers), comboux (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers). (various references) | |
Farsi | بامیه(okra)(گ.ش.), بامیا. (various references) | |
French | gombo. (various references) | |
German | okra (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers). (various references) | |
Greek | μπάμια (gumbo). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gombó (gumbo), bámia. (various references) | |
Italian | gombo (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, offer, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | オクラ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | okraay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quiabo (gombo, gumbo, ladies'fingers). (various references) | |
Russian | окра. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okra. (various references) | |
Spanish | ñajú (gumbo, okra plant). (various references) | |
Swedish | ockra (ocher, ochre, practise usury, reddle, Ruddle). (various references) | |
Thai | กระเจี๊ยบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | bamya (gombo, gumbo, lady's finger). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Abelmoschus, ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS, Hibiscus esculentus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "okra": okras. (additional references) | |
Words containing "okra": bookrack, bookracks. (additional references) | |
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"Okra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akar, Bokara, cockram, Ekram, Gorka, Ikram, koira, kopra, korai, korat, Korc, korf, Kori, korl, koro, korsa, Kotra, koza, lokri, Mokri, oara, Obra, ocar, ocha, Ocora, ocr, ocre, ocru, odra, oera, Ofra, ogar, ogra, Oikya, okae, okam, okara, okia, okrug, Okurut, omrah, omrak, omri, onka, opra, oraa, oraf, orah, orai, oraj, orak, Orap, orax, Ork, Orka, Orkar, Orpa, orra, orru, Osra, Otra, Ouka, oura, Oxrad, pokran, skra, Tocra, Tokar, ukra, Yoksam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "okra" (pronounced ō"kru) |
| 3 | -k r u | Sacra. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-o-r" | |
-1 letter: ark, koa, kor, oak, oar, oka, ora. | |
-2 letters: ar, ka, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-o-r" | |
+1 letter: croak, karoo, korai, korat, krona, okras, tarok, troak. | |
+2 letters: anorak, arkose, croaks, croaky, karoos, kaross, karroo, korats, koruna, resoak, ryokan, soaker, taroks, troaks, troika. | |
+3 letters: anoraks, arkoses, arkosic, armlock, artwork, brokage, caprock, comaker, corkage, croaked, croaker, daywork, dorhawk, earlock, forsake, hayfork, karaoke, karroos, kilobar, kilorad, korunas, lavrock, lockram, markhor, oarlike, oarlock, ostmark, outbark, outrank, partook, presoak, rakeoff, reawoke, resoaks, rockaby, ryokans, soakers, troaked, troikas, warlock, warwork, waxwork, workbag, workday, workman. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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