Sea Cucumber

Definition: Sea Cucumber

Sea Cucumber

Noun

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

Specialty Definitions: Sea Cucumber

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	Holothurian, esp. any holothurian whose contracted body suggests a cucumber in form. . WEBIN, 66, 3-/. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Sea cucumber

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin. Mostly found on the sea ground. It is so named because of its cucumber-like shape.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sea cucumber."

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Synonym: Sea Cucumber

Synonym: holothurian (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sea Cucumber

Specialty definitions using "sea cucumber": Holothurin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sea Cucumber

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Okay, a mollusk walks up to this sea cucumber, well he doesn't actually walk, he's just there, and he turns to the sea cucumber, and Well, wait, there's a mollusk and a sea cucumber and (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton)
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Commercial Usage: Sea Cucumber

Domain	Title
Books	Jellyfish, Sea Cucumber and Turtle Fishing in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Namako: Sea Cucumber (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Sea Cucumber

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Photo Album: Sea Cucumber

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	Sea cucumber being prepared for salad. Just kidding! The knife is for scale.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Sea cucumber grazing deep hard bottom off Hawaii.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
	Sea cucumber is colored to look like its rocky habitat.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Sea Cucumber, Stichopus chloronotus, and Ctenochaetus striogosus, surgeon fish in typical habitat where pipe meets the bottom.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.
	Sea Cucumber, Euapta godeffroyi, very common in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		Sea Cucumber, Euapta godeffroyi, very common in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.
	Holothuroidean( Sea cucumber) , Holothuria atra, whole organism.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		Small crabs taken from digestive system of sea cucumber.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sea Cucumber

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sea cucumber	185
dried sea cucumber	8
cmo and sea cucumber	4
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Modern Translations: Sea Cucumber

Language		Translations for "sea cucumber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		trepang, holothurie, hoisom, cornichon de mer, concombre de mer, boudin de mer. (various references)

Hungarian		tengeri ugorka. (various references)

Indonesian		teripang (sea slug). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		海� (sea slug). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なま�" (sea slug). (various references)

Manx		cucowr marrey. (various references)

Pig Latin		easay ucumbercay

Russian		морской огурец. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Sea Cucumber

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Holothuria fuscogilva. (various references)
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Anagrams: Sea Cucumber

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-m-r-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: cucumbers.
	-3 letters: cucumber, curcumas, embraces, reaccuse, succubae.
	-4 letters: accrues, accuser, ambeers, amerces, because, becurse, besmear, bureaus, cambers, cesurae, crambes, cumbers, curcuma, embrace, embrues, measure, racemes, rubaces, subrace, succuba, succumb.
	-5 letters: abuser, accrue, accuse, ambeer, ambers, ameers, amerce, amuser, aureus, aurums, became, bemuse, bermes, braces, breams, brumes, bureau, bursae, cabers, caecum, camber, caucus, causer, cercus.
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