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bêche-de-mer

bêche-de-mer noun: synonym of sea cucumber.

Noun

bêche-de-mer (plural bêches-de-mer)

  1. Synonym of sea cucumber.
    • The Hunter had called in at Fiji to collect sandalwood and bêche de mer on a voyage between Calcutta and New South Wales.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 18
    Synonyms:
    sea cucumber

Proper noun capitalized: Bêche-de-Mer

Bêche-de-Mer

  1. Bislama (language).

Synonyms of bêche-de-mer

Forms of bêche-de-mer

pluralbêches-de-mer
alternative formbêche de mer

Origin of bêche-de-mer

Unadapted borrowing from French bêche-de-mer.

Questions about bêche-de-mer

What does bêche-de-mer mean?
Bêche-de-mer means synonym of sea cucumber.
What part of speech is bêche-de-mer?
Bêche-de-mer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bêche-de-mer?
The plural of bêche-de-mer is bêches-de-mer.

Words near bêche-de-mer in the dictionary

  1. Bézout domain
  2. Bézout's identity
  3. Bézout's lemma
  4. Bézout's theorem
  5. bêche de mer
  6. bêche-de-mer
  7. bêches-de-mer
  8. bête noir
  9. bête noire
  10. bête rouge
  11. bêtes noires

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