lady's fingers

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lady's fingers - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lady's finger \La"dy's fin"ger\,
     1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria;
        called also lady's fingers.
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     2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions
        of a finger.
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     3. A long, slender variety of the potato.
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     4. (Zool.) One of the branchiae of the lobster.
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     5. (Bot.) A tall coarse annual (Abelmoschus esculentus) of
        Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern U. S. and
        West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as
        basis for soups and stews; it is sometimes placed in the
        genus Hibiscus. [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Note: different from lady's fingers
  
     Syn: okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus,
          Hibiscus esculentus.
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