sea cucumber

English

A sea cucumber.

Etymology

From sea +‎ cucumber, named in reference to its appearance. The term first appeared in common use in the 19th century, and is a calque of French concombre de mer according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Noun

sea cucumber (plural sea cucumbers)

1. An echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin.

   Synonyms: bêche-de-mer, holothurian, trepang

   Hyponym: swimming sea cucumber

Derived terms

• black sea cucumber

Translations

sea cucumber

• Afrikaans: seekomkommer
• Arabic: خيار البحر
• Azerbaijani: dəniz xiyarı
• Bislama: bislama
• Bulgarian: морска краставица f (morska krastavica)
• Catalan: cogombre de mar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海參／海参 (zh) (hǎishēn)

• Dutch: zeekomkommer (nl) c
• Esperanto: markukumo
• Finnish: merimakkara (fi)
• French: bêche-de-mer (fr) f, holothurie (fr) f
• Galician: mexacán (gl) m, carallote (gl) m
• German: Seegurke (de) f
• Greek: ολοθούριο n (olothoúrio)

  Ancient Greek: ὁλοθούριον n (holothoúrion)

• Greenlandic: inalugalik
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן יָם m (m'laf'fon yam)
• Hungarian: tengeriuborka (hu)
• Icelandic: sæbjúga n
• Irish: súmaire cladaigh m
• Italian: cetriolo di mare (it) m, oloturia (it) f
• Japanese: 海鼠 (ja) (なまこ, namako), ナマコ (ja) (なまこ, namako)
• Khmer: ឈ្លើងសមុទ្រ (chləəng saʼmot)
• Korean: 해삼(海蔘) (haesam)
• Malay: teripang (ms), timun laut, gamat
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshtsoh chʼééh digháhii
• Nootka: taaʔinwa, teeʔinwa
• Northern Sami: bodneluomi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøpølse m or f

  Nynorsk: sjøpølse f

• Polish: strzykwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: holotúria, pepino-do-mar (pt) m
• Romanian: castravete de mare m
• Russian: голоту́рия (ru) f (golotúrija), морско́й огуре́ц m (morskój oguréc), трепа́нг (ru) m (trepáng)
• Saanich: ŦIȻT
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трп m

  Roman: trp (sh) m

• Spanish: holoturoideo m, pepino de mar m, cohombro m, carajo de mar m
• Swedish: sjögurka (sv) c
• Tagalog: tripang
• Thai: ปลิงทะเล (bpling-tá-lee)
• Turkish: denizhıyarı (tr)
• Vietnamese: hải sâm (vi)
• Welsh: chwerwddwr y môr m

See also

• Haishenwai / Haishenwei ('sea cucumber bay')

Further reading

• sea cucumber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Holothuroidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Holothuroidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons