Definition of "Gumbo" :

noun: a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

noun: long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

noun: 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

noun: any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water