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[syn: sea cucumber, holothurian]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Holothurian \Hol`o*thu"ri*an\, a. (Zool.)
Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the
Holothurioidea.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea
cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and b[^e]che de
m[`e]r. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese.
See Trepang.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
holothurian
n 1: echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles
surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud
feeders [syn: sea cucumber, holothurian]