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单词 bêche-de-mer
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bêche-de-mer

[ besh-duh-mair, beysh- ]
/ ˌbɛʃ dəˈmɛər, ˌbeɪʃ- /

noun, plural bêch·es-de-mer, (especially collectively) bêche-de-mer for 1.

a trepang.
Often Bêche-de-Mer. Neo-Melanesian.

Origin of bêche-de-mer

1805–15; erroneously for French biche de mer<Portuguese bicho do mar literally, animal of the sea; cf. Beach-la-Mar

Words nearby bêche-de-mer

béchamel sauce, bechance, Béchar, becharm, bêche, bêche-de-mer, Bechet, Bechstein, Bechterew-Mendel reflex, Bechterew's disease, Bechuana
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Example sentences from the Web for bêche-de-mer

  • We must fill the three schooners with copra and beche-de-mer.

    South Sea Tales|Jack London

  • There were traders old and young, beche-de-mer fishermen, old beach-combers and blackbirders.

    Through the South Seas with Jack London|Martin Johnson

  • On the reefs of the Southern Ocean is found a kind of sea-slug termed the Beche-de-mer.

    Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art|Various

British Dictionary definitions for bêche-de-mer

bêche-de-mer
/ (ˌbɛʃdəˈmɛə) /

noun plural bêches-de-mer (ˌbɛʃdəˈmɛə) or bêche-de-mer

another name for trepang
See Beach-la-Mar

Word Origin for bêche-de-mer

C19: quasi-French, from earlier English biche de mer, from Portuguese bicho do mar worm of the sea
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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