The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word OKRA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result OKRA
- Fine artist depicting ladies' fingers
- Pods round ship heading west
- Fine dish not required with vegetable soup ingredient
- Good god, a vegetable
- Lady’s fingers look ravishing to some extent
- Fine reduced to cover end of nuclear plant
- At regular intervals, cook treat, edible pods
- Vegetable’s fine almost raw
- Vegetable in book? Radish?
- Cook rabbit stuffed with vegetable
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The straight part
We know that "Lady’s fingers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lady’s fingers = okra.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does OKRA mean?
OKRA noun- The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
- The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.