Definition of "ocra"

...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...

1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pages 59–60

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

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