What is "okra"

Usage examples of "okra".

Italian stewed tomatoes, okra, mirlitons, V8 juice, and a little Tabasco sauce.

Ida realized that this had been a sacrifice for Okra, because she would rather have made Smithereen like her instead of being revolted by her.

Basmati rice, lentils, green salad, okra, nan bread, tandoori chicken.

Mela Merwoman, Ida Human, and Okra Ogress, who are here temporarily until their rocket seed is ready to move again.

Apple trees hanging heavy with fruit but yet unaccountably blossoming, ice rimming the spring, okra plants blooming yellow and maroon, maple leaves red as October, corn tops tas-seling, a stuffed chair pulled up to the glowing parlor hearth, pumpkins shining in the fields, laurels blooming on the hillsides, ditch banks full of orange jewelweed, white blossoms on dogwood, purple on redbud.

The vegetables included bacon and collard greens, black-eyed peas, smothered okra, candied yams, string bean casserole, and cranberry sauce.

The boys and girls madly pedaling their bicycles might have been hurrying home to eat their usual Saturday supper of fried chicken and okra before sitting down to watch Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody on their fifteen-inch black-and-white televisions.

Beans of every kind, including her own Hoppin' John, which wasn't an official candidate, cornbread dressing, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes with all kinds of toppings from marshmallows to pecan strudel, rice, grits, mashed potatoes, corn pudding, squash casserole, turnips, turnip greens, green beans, smothered cabbage, fried green tomatoes, okra prepared in several ways, collard greens, mustard greens, pickled beets, Brunswick stew, and fried apples were all represented.

It was not till we'd all but finished the chicken and sandwiches, ham biscuits and pickled okra, little brown-sugar pies, cold tea, lemonade and peppery cheese straws that for some reason I missed the dogs.

The three of them sat on the plastic-covered, foamrubber cushioned chairs about an enamel topped table covered with a red-and-white checked cloth and helped themselves from a steaming dish of boiled collard greens, okra, and pigs feet, a warmed-over bowl of black-eyed peas and a platter of cornbread.

Red and yellow tomatoes, cucumbers and onions in vinegar, butter beans, snap beans, peas, okra, squash, boiled potatoes, corn on the cob, and always hot corn bread.

The food was excellent--medium-rare sirloins, corn on the cob, okra and tomatoes, creamed scalloped potatoes, a cucumber and onion salad, with a chocolate pudding dessert topped with real whipped cream, not sprayed from a can--and I ate every bit of it, including four hot biscuits with butter (my two, and Berenice's two).

He found three pork chops, two eggs, a saucepan hall-filled with cold hominy grits and a serving dish containing dandelion greens and okra that had been boiled with pigs feet.

She and Esau grew four types of tomatoes, butter beans, string beans, black-eyed peas, crowder peas, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, collards, mustard greens, turnips, vidalia onions, yellow onions, green onions, cabbage, okra, new red potatoes, russet potatoes, carrots, beets, corn, green peppers, cantaloupes, two varieties of watermelon, and a few other things she couldn't recall at the moment.

I decided that since my kenaf was thriving so well, I would try the okra.