gumbo soil

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• gumbo soil — noun any of various fine grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water • Syn: ↑gumbo • Hypernyms: ↑soil, ↑dirt …   Useful english dictionary

• gumbo — ☆ gumbo [gum′bō ] n. [< Bantu name for okra] 1. OKRA (senses 1 & 2) 2. a soup thickened with unripe okra pods, usually made with tomatoes, vegetables, and chicken, ham, or seafood 3. a fine, silty soil of the Western prairies, which becomes… …   English World dictionary

• Gumbo (disambiguation) — Gumbo may refer to:* Gumbo, a spicy, hearty stew or soup. * Gumbo, a red clay humanoid figure of Gumby s father * Gumbo is another name of the vegetable okra, also known as bhindi or lady s fingers. * Gumbo, a particularly sticky form of clay… …   Wikipedia

• gumbo — /gum boh/, n., pl. gumbos, adj. n. 1. a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener. 2. okra. 3. soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet. adj. 4. of, pertaining to, or like… …   Universalium

• Gumbo — /gum boh/, n. (sometimes l.c.) a French patois spoken by blacks and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies. * * * In soil science, any of various fine grained, rich, black, alluvial soils, especially of the central U.S., that when wet… …   Universalium

• gumbo — noun (plural gumbos) N. Amer. 1》 okra, especially the gelatinous pods used in cooking.     ↘(in Cajun cooking) a spicy chicken or seafood soup thickened with okra or rice. 2》 (Gumbo) a French based patois spoken by some blacks and Creoles in… …   English new terms dictionary

• soil — I noun 1) acid soil Syn: earth, loam, dirt, clay, gumbo; ground 2) Canadian soil Syn: territory, land, domain, dominion, region, country II …   Thesaurus of popular words

• soil — Synonyms and related words: abuse, acres, adobe, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, attaint, bedaub, befoul, begrime, belt, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betray, black, blacken, blot,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gumbo — gum•bo [[t]ˈgʌm boʊ[/t]] n. pl. bos 1) coo a soup of chicken or seafood, greens, and seasonings, usu. thickened with okra 2) coo okra 3) gel soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet • Etymology: 1795–1805; < LaF …   From formal English to slang

• gumbo — /ˈgʌmboʊ/ (say gumboh) noun (plural gumbos) Chiefly US 1. → okra. 2. soup or stew, usually containing chicken, thickened with okra pods. 3. a silty soil, chiefly in the southern and western US, becoming very sticky when wet. Also, gombo. {from… …  

• Blacklands Railroad — The Blacklands Railroad (BLR) is a short line railroad headquartered in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The name comes from the black gumbo soil prevalent in the area.BLR operates a 65.6 mile line, under contract with the Northeast Texas Rural… …   Wikipedia