HyperDic: sea_cucumber

English > 1 sense of the expression sea cucumber:
NOUNanimalsea cucumber, holothurianechinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet
English > sea cucumber: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningechinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders.
Synonymholothurian
Member ofHolothuroidea, class HolothuroideaClass of echinoderms including the sea cucumbers
Narrowertrepang, Holothuria edulisOf warm coasts from Australia to Asia
Broaderechinodermmarine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies
Spanishcohombro de mar, holoturia
Catalanholotúria

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