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Holothurian

Holothurian \Hol`o*thu"ri*an\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea.

Note: Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and b[^e]che de m[`e]r. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.

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holothurian

n. (context zoology English) sea cucumber (of the class Holothuroidea)

WordNet
holothurian

n. echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders: sea cucumbers [syn: sea cucumber]

Usage examples of "holothurian".

Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.

Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.

The bones of cholla that glowed there in their incandescent basketry pulsed like burning holothurians in the phosphorous dark of the sea's deeps.

And wait until I tell you about my holothurians, my sea-slugs,_ my sea-cucumbers .

And wait until I tell you about my holothurians, my sea-slugs," my sea-cucumbers.