单词 | trepang |
释义 | trepangn. A marine animal, an echinoderm ( Holothuria edulis), called also sea-cucumber, sea-slug, sea-swallow, or bêche-de-mer, eaten as a luxury by the Chinese. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > other sea creatures trepang1783 calamari1826 squida1862 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > order Actinopoda > member of genus Holothuria sea-slug1779 swallo1779 trepang1783 sea-swallow1802 bêche-de-mer1814 cotton-fish1851 cotton-spinner1908 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) I. 277 [Celebes] furnishes..tripam, a species of mushroom, which increases in value in proportion to the roundness of it's form, and the blackness of it's colour. 1793 J. Trapp tr. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 390 The tripam is a little spungy plant without root, and like a mushroom... It grows in great profusion in the island of Celebes. 1802 Capt. Elmore in Naval Chron. 8 380 Sea swallow (called beach de mar by the Portuguese, and trepong by the Malays). 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 188/2 The tripang swala, or sea-slug. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 572 So far as we know, but one species is used for food. This, the Trepang of the Chinese (Holothuria edulis), is found in the Indian Ocean. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as trepang-fisher, trepang-fishery. ΚΠ 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. I. vii. 211 These lighter coloured people are Malays, captured from the Trepang fishers. 1878 P. L. Simmonds Comm. Products Sea i. ix. 105 The trepang fishery of the Pacific and Eastern Seas. 1904 A. W. Howitt Native Tribes S.E. Austral. i. 26 The trepang fishers..are the Bugis, a Malayan people, who form the principal nation of the Island of Celebes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1783 |
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