HOLOTHURIA EDULIS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese

Synonyms:

Holothuria edulis; trepang

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Holothuria edulis" is a kind of...):

holothurian; sea cucumber (echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders)

Holonyms ("Holothuria edulis" is a member of...):

genus Holothuria; Holothuria (type genus of the Holothuridae)

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