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Umbo vs Gumbo - What's the difference?

umbo | gumbo |

As nouns the difference between umbo and gumbo

is that umbo is a boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear while gumbo is the okra plant or its pods.

umbo

English

Noun

  • (biology) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.
  • (zoology) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
  • (mycology) A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap.
  • (historical) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
  • * 1786 : It is thirteen inches diameter, made of wood covered with leather, and an iron plate decorated with nails and mouldings; the boss or umbo projects four inches. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page xii.

    • Derived terms

    * umbonal * umbonic

    See also

    * boss ----

    gumbo

    English

    (wikipedia gumbo)

    Noun

  • (countable) The okra plant or its pods.
  • (uncountable) A soup or stew made with okra.
  • (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
  • * 1909 , , The Foreigner , ch. 11:
    • 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 .
  • * 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics , p. 567:
    • There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo'" roads of the south—' gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.
  • * 1950 July 3, " Labor: Trouble at Lowland," Time :
    • The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

    Synonyms

    * (okra plant) okra, ladies' fingers

    References

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