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trepang
[ trih-pang ]
noun
- any of various holothurians or sea cucumbers, as Holothuria edulis, used as food in China.
trepang
/ trɪˈpæŋ /
noun
- any of various large sea cucumbers of tropical Oriental seas, the body walls of which are used as food by the Japanese and Chinese Also calledbêche-de-mer
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Example Sentences
The town lies in a fertile plain and deals in rice, trepang and pina.
Sea-cucumbers, as they are popularly called, are also known by the name of trepang and sea-slug.
The trepang were found about the rocks on the beach in great numbers, as they were also on the South Island.
A thousand trepang make a picol, of about 125 Dutch pounds; and 100 picols are a cargo for a proa.
Besides trepang, they trade in sharks' fins and birds' nests, the latter being worth about 3000 dollars the picol.
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