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Okra

2 stages from Igbo to English.

Today it means a green seed pod eaten as a vegetable, known for its thickening quality
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Stage 1 of 2
okuru
Igbo · 1600s
"the okra pod"
the name for the green seed pod eaten as a vegetable across West Africa
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Stage 2 of 2
okra
English · 1700s
"a green edible seed pod"
carried by the Atlantic slave trade into American and Caribbean English
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