(in Cajun cooking) a spicy chicken or seafood stew or soup thickened typically with okra or rice

the restaurant will serve an extensive menu of Southern dishes like gumbo

for lunch the crew had shrimp gumbo

okra, especially the gelatinous pods used in cooking

a French-based patois spoken by some black and Creole people in Louisiana

a fine clayey soil that becomes sticky and impervious when wet