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sea cucumber

sea cucumber noun: an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin.

sea cucumber: an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin
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Noun

sea cucumber (plural sea cucumbers)

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

sea cucumber meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay

sea cucumber in Tamil

கடலட்டை, கடல் அட்டை, கடல் வெள்ளரி

sea cucumber in Tagalog

sea cucumber
balatan

sea cucumber in Arabic

sea cucumber
خيار البحر

sea cucumber in Malay

sea cucumber
teripang, timun laut, gamat
More languagesFewer languages
sea cucumber in Indonesian
teripang
sea cucumber in Thai
ปลิงทะเล bpling-tá-lee
sea cucumber in Vietnamese
hải sâm, đồn đột, rum, dưa chuột biển

Synonyms of sea cucumber

Forms of sea cucumber

pluralsea cucumbers

Origin of sea cucumber

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.

Words formed from sea cucumber

Questions about sea cucumber

What does sea cucumber mean?
Sea cucumber means an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin.
What is sea cucumber in Tamil?
Sea cucumber in Tamil is கடலட்டை, கடல் அட்டை, கடல் வெள்ளரி. See Sea cucumber meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sea cucumber?
Sea cucumber is a noun.
What is the plural of sea cucumber?
The plural of sea cucumber is sea cucumbers.

Words near sea cucumber in the dictionary

  1. sea cradle
  2. sea cradles
  3. sea crayfish
  4. sea crow
  5. sea crows
  6. sea cucumber
  7. sea cucumbers
  8. sea dace
  9. sea daces
  10. sea daffodil
  11. sea daffodils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea cucumber (page history and authors); sea cucumber (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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