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lady's fingers

Lady's finger \La"dy's fin"ger\,

  1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers.

  2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.

  3. A long, slender variety of the potato.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) One of the branchi[ae] of the lobster.

  5. (Bot.) A tall coarse annual ( Abelmoschus esculentus) of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern U. S. and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; it is sometimes placed in the genus Hibiscus. [WordNet sense 1]

    Note: different from lady's fingers

    Syn: okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus.