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TREPANG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trepang mean?
• TREPANG (noun)
The noun TREPANG has 1 sense:
1. of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese
Familiarity information: TREPANG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Holothuria edulis; trepang
Hypernyms ("trepang" 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 ("trepang" is a member of...):
genus Holothuria; Holothuria (type genus of the Holothuridae)
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