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Lady's finger   Listen
noun
Lady's finger  n.  
1.
pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers.
2.
(Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
3.
A long, slender variety of the potato.
4.
(Zool.) One of the branchiae of the lobster.
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. Note: different from lady's fingers
Synonyms: okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lady's finger" Quotes from Famous Books



... lofty pinnacles, they are as legible to the rabble below as a line of cuneiform writing in a page of old copybook roundhand. By their deeds we know them, as heathendom knows of its gods; and it is repeatedly on record that the moment they have taken fire they must wed, though the lady's finger be circled with nothing closer fitting than a ring of the bed-curtain. Vainly, as becomes a candid country lass, blue-eyed Susan tells him that she is but a poor dairymaid. He has been a student of women at Courts, in which furnace the sex becomes ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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