ladies' fingers

noun

1. functioning as singular or plural another name for kidney vetch okra

Example Sentences

People have also been talking about new terms given to other foods, such as "green soup" to refer to the soup made from leaves of the molokhia plant, described as a vegetable with a taste and texture similar to okra, also known as ladies' fingers.

From BBC

Okra. Also called “ladies’ fingers,” there's more to this veggie than its slimy reputation.

From US News

These tubes are put in the pastry-bag, at the smaller end of it, to make meringues, ladies' fingers, etc.; they are of tin, and can be made by any tinsmith.

From Project Gutenberg

No Diligence shall be waylaid, nor in my presence shall any ladies' fingers be amputated, the quicker to secure her rings, if I can possibly avoid it; and, as far as depends on me, I shall arrive in a whole skin at each journey's end, and without poisoning you or myself with garlick, unless the new Cortes pass a law for denying to the stranger all other sorts of aliment.

From Project Gutenberg

The ladies'-fingers and petticoat-tails those officers sent to Livvy, I ate them also!

From Project Gutenberg