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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.





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"Lady's finger" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been planted from twelve to twenty years. Small-growing or dwarf kinds, such as the Cavendish variety, are planted at from 12 to 16 feet apart each way, but large-growing bananas, such as the Sugar and Lady's Finger, require from 20 to 25 feet apart each way, as do the stronger-growing varieties of plantain. Plantains are not grown to any extent in Queensland, and our principal varieties are those already mentioned, the Cavendish variety greatly ...
— Fruits of Queensland • Albert Benson
... each man had coffee, one lady's finger of bread, and a single small slice of bacon. Hitherto from choice I had not eaten bacon in this country, although it was a regular staple served at each meal. But now, with proper human perversity, I developed an extraordinary appetite for bacon. It seemed quite the most delicious ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton
... the heaped mounds of shells, mostly broken, for the "legs of mutton" that meant to them love and long life and prosperity. They chose out for luck also the smooth little rose-tinted valves, more exquisite than the fairest lady's finger-nails. ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett


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