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Okra
Abelmoschus esculentus
A long, ridged green pod with sticky seed-filled interior — central to gumbo, Indian curries, and Levantine stews, with the love-it-or-hate-it characteristic mucilage.
If you've been searching for vegetables that start with O, you'll find 3 detailed vegetables below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
For vegetables, that means scientific name, family, plant part, season, nutrition, and cooking uses.
List of Vegetables That Start With O
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Onion
Allium cepa
A pungent edible bulb that forms the aromatic foundation of cuisines worldwide, with hundreds of varieties from sweet to sulfurous.
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Oregano
Origanum vulgare
A pungent Mediterranean herb essential to Italian, Greek, and Mexican cooking — closely related to marjoram but more assertive, with the dried form actually more intense than fresh.
About vegetables starting with O
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