gumbo (redirected from okra plant)

gumbo, another name for okra; also applied in the W United States to a rich, black, alkaline alluvial soil, which is soapy or sticky when wet.

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gumbo

In soil science, any of various fine-grained, rich, black, alluvial soils, especially of the central U.S., that when wet become impenetrable and soapy or waxy and very sticky. When dried, gumbo “bakes” and becomes extremely hard.

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gumbo [′gəm·bō]

(botany)

okra

(geology)

A soil that forms a sticky mud when wet.