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Ladyfinger vs. Okra — What's the Difference?

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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