Words That Start With: GUMB

• A type of boot made of rubber.

• A style of popular music traditionally associated with gold miners.

• Generic black tea.

• Chewing gum sold as a ball usually coated with colored hard sugar.

• A silly, laughable person.

• The flashing lights on top of a police car.

• A soup or stew made with okra.

• A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.

• The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.

• The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.

• any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

• 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

• long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

• a soup or stew thickened with okra pods