gumbo

noun3

1. •
   A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
2. •
   A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.

   • The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo. — 1909
3. •
   Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.