ocra

ocra (countable and uncountable, plural ocras)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of okra.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pages 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., volume I, page 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• acro-, arco, acro, Caro, AOCR, orca, CRAO, Roca, RAOC, Cora, Arco

From a West African language, perhaps via English okra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.kɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔ.kɾa]
• Hyphenation: o‧cra

ocra f (plural ocres)

1. okra

• “ocra” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2025.

• Homophones: ocras, ocrât

ocra

1. third-person singular past historic of ocrer

Borrowed from Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.kra/
• Rhymes: -ɔkra
• Hyphenation: ò‧cra

ocra (invariable)

1. tawny

ocra f (plural ocre)

1. ochre

• acro, acro-, arco, arcò, caro, orca, roca

• ocre
• oca (dated, colloquial)

ocra f (plural ocras)

1. ochre (earth pigment containing silica, aluminium and ferric oxide)

From a West African language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈokɾa/ [ˈo.kɾa]
• Rhymes: -okɾa
• Syllabification: o‧cra

ocra m (plural ocras)

1. (El Salvador) okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

   Synonym: quingombó

• “ocra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024