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sea cucumber

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sea cucumber
n.
Any of various cucumber-shaped echinoderms of the class Holothuroidea, having a flexible body with tentacles surrounding the mouth.
sea cucumber
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having an elongated body covered with a leathery skin and bearing a cluster of tentacles at the oral end. They usually creep on the sea bed or burrow in sand
[so named because of its cucumber-like shape]
sea cucumber
See holothurian.
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Noun1.sea cucumber - echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feetsea cucumber - echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders
holothurian
echinoderm - marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies
class Holothuroidea, Holothuroidea - class of echinoderms including the sea cucumbers
Holothuria edulis, trepang - of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese
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