SEA CUCUMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea cucumber mean? 

• SEA CUCUMBER (noun)
  The noun SEA CUCUMBER has 1 sense:

1. echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders

  Familiarity information: SEA CUCUMBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA CUCUMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

holothurian; sea cucumber

Hypernyms ("sea cucumber" is a kind of...):

echinoderm (marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea cucumber"):

Holothuria edulis; trepang (of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese)

Holonyms ("sea cucumber" is a member of...):

class Holothuroidea; Holothuroidea (class of echinoderms including the sea cucumbers)

 Context examples 

An orally available nutritional supplement and proprietary formulation containing extracts from the sea cucumber, sea sponge, shark fin, sea urchin and the marine grass Sargassum, with potential antioxidant, antitumor, anti-angiogenic and immunomodulating activities.

(Nutraceutical TBL-12, NCI Thesaurus)