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Vitamin vs Gumbo - What's the difference?

vitamin | gumbo |

As nouns the difference between vitamin and gumbo

is that vitamin is any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders while gumbo is the okra plant or its pods.

vitamin

English

(wikipedia vitamin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "vitamin") * vitamer * vitaminic * vitaminize * vitamin A ** vitamin A acid * vitamin B ** vitamin B complex, vitamin Bc]], , [[vitamin B17, vitamin B17 * vitamin C * vitamin D ** * vitamin E * vitamin F (obsolete) * vitamin G * vitamin H * vitamin J (obsolete) * vitamin K ** * vitamin M * vitamin P * vitamin R (slang) * vitamin V (slang)

    See also

    * vitamer

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    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

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