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, perhaps calqued from another European language, like French concombre de mer.

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

Translations

sea cucumber

• Bislama: bislama
• Bulgarian: морска краставица f (morska krastavica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海參 (zh), 海参 (zh) (hǎishēn)

• Dutch: zeekomkommer (nl) c
• Esperanto: markukumo
• Finnish: merimakkara (fi)
• French: bêche-de-mer (fr) f
• Galician: mexacán m, carallote (gl) m
• German: Seegurke (de) f
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן יָם‎ m (m'laf'fon yam)
• Hungarian: tengeriuborka
• 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 (なまこ, namako)
• Korean: 해삼 (haesam) (海蔘)

• Malay: teripang (ms), timun laut, gamat
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshtsoh chʼééh digháhii
• Nootka: taaʔinwa, teeʔinwa
• Northern Sami: bodneluomi
• Polish: strzykwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pepino-do-mar (pt) m
• Russian: голоту́рия (ru) f (golotúrija), морско́й огуре́ц m (morskój oguréc), трепа́нг (ru) m (trepáng)
• 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
• Welsh: chwerwddwr y môr m

Further reading

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