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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 gum·bo /ˈgʌm(ˌ)bo/
 秋葵;加有秋葵的濃湯;粘土

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gum·bo n.
 1. A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. Especially, A thick stew made with chicken (chicken gumbo), or seafood (seafood gumbo), thickened with okra or file, and also containing greens and often hot spices; it is particularly popular in Louisiana.
 2. The okra plant or its pods.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 gumbo
      n 1: any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and
           very sticky mud when saturated with water [syn: gumbo
           soil]
      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, okra
         plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus
         esculentus]
      3: long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but
         used especially in soups and stews [syn: okra]
      4: a soup or stew thickened with okra pods