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sea cucumber
noun
- any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
sea cucumber
noun
- 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
sea cucumber
- See holothurian
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Origin of sea cucumber1
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Discarded houses sink to the seafloor where they are eaten by scavengers such as sea cucumbers.
The mouth of a Sea-Cucumber is surrounded by a circlet of tentacles (partially indicated in the diagram, Fig. 38).
Sea′-gher′kin, a sea-cucumber; Sea′-gill′iflower, the common thrift; Sea′-gin′ger, millipore coral.
It may be any one of the grotesque products of Neptune's vegetable garden, a sea-cucumber, a sea-carrot, or a sea-cabbage.
The beche-de-mere, or "sea cucumber," is a product of Australasian and Malaysian waters.
The skeleton of the Sea-Cucumber is of a very meagre description.
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