'Sea cucumber' definitions:
Definition of 'sea cucumber'
(from WordNet)
noun
Echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders [syn: sea cucumber, holothurian]
Definition of 'Sea cucumber'
From: GCIDE
- Sea cucumber \Sea" cu"cum*ber\ (Zool.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (Pentacta frondosa). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'sea cucumber'
From: GCIDE
- Trepang \Tre*pang"\, n. [Malay tr[imac]pang.] (Zool.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also b[^e]che de mer, sea cucumber, and {sea slug}. [Written also tripang.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially Holothuria edulis. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup. [1913 Webster]