Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various large sea cucumbers that are dried or smoked for use as an ingredient in soup, especially in China.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of edible holothurian, as Holothuria edulis; a sea-slug, sea-cucumber, sea-pudding, or bêche-de-mer; also, such holothurians as a commercial product prepared for food.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.

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  • noun Bêche-de-mer, sea cucumber.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Malay teripang.]

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From Malay teripang.

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  • sea cucumber.

    February 4, 2008

  • He said he was a trader, and sold rice. He did not want to buy gutta-percha or beeswax, because he intended to employ his numerous crew in collecting trepang on the coral reefs outside the river, and also in seeking for bird's nests on the mainland.

    - Conrad, Almayer's Folly (1896), ch. 4

    October 17, 2008

  • Also an opera, bit close to home :-7

    October 17, 2008