trepang

tre·pang  (tr-png)

n.

A sea cucumber of the genus Holothuria of the southern Pacific and Indian oceans, dried or smoked for use as an ingredient in soup, especially in China and Indonesia. Also called bêche-de-mer.

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[Malay teripang.]

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Noun

1.

trepang - of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese Holothuria edulis holothurian, sea cucumber - echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders genus Holothuria, Holothuria - type genus of the Holothuridae