a plant of the mallow family, with long green seed cases that are eaten as a vegetable. The vegetable is also known as ladies’ fingers, gumbo or bhindi in different parts of the world. 秋葵，黄秋葵（一种蔬菜） Word Originearly 18th cent.: a West African word, perhaps from the root nkru; compare with nkran, the name of the town Europeanized as Accra.
