Ladyfinger vs. Okra — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ladyfinger and Okra
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Ladyfinger
A small finger-shaped sponge cake.
Okra
Okra or Okro (US: , UK: ), Abelmoschus esculentus, known in many English-speaking countries as ladies' fingers or ochro, is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It is valued for its edible green seed pods.
Ladyfinger
A small sponge cake, shaped approximately like a finger.
Ladyfingers soaked in liqueur are the base of tiramisu, but I suppose you could just cut up a sponge cake instead.
Okra
A tall tropical African annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus) in the mallow family, widely cultivated in warm regions for its edible, mucilaginous green pods.
Ladyfinger
A type of small banana.
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Okra
The edible pods of this plant, used in soups and stews and as a vegetable. Also called regionally gumbo.
Ladyfinger
Syn of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
Okra
See gumbo.
Ladyfinger
A variety of small firecracker.
Grandpa would give each of the kids a strip of ladyfingers to light on New Year's Day.
Okra
The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
Ladyfinger
Small finger-shaped sponge cake
Okra
The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
Okra
An annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus syn. Hibiscus esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.
Okra
The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo.
Okra
Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
Okra
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
Okra
Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
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