trepang
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trepang
1775–85; < Malay təripaŋ (spelling teripang ) < an unidentified source
Example Sentences
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They are traditional Indonesian boats known as praus and they brought Muslim fishermen from the flourishing trading city of Makassar in search of trepang, or sea cucumbers.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2014
The trepang is a sort of sea-slug, which is dried and used by the Chinese to make soup.
From Mark Seaworth by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Beche-de-mer, a slug, called also the trepang, procured on the coral reefs of the Pacific, which is dried and eaten as a dainty by the Chinese.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
It is formed principally of coral, on the surface of which we found the gray trepang; a small Chama gigas, a cypraea, a pretty azure-coloured species of asteria, and a few bivalve shells.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker
New Guinea produces good beeswax, pearls, tortoise-shell, trepang, birds-of-paradise, etc.
From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George
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