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tripang

tripang is the alternative form of trepang.

Meaning of trepang

Noun

trepang (plural trepangs)

  1. Synonym of sea cucumber.
    • There had been a drop in the mother-of-pearl shell market and quite a few of the pearling luggers had turned their attention to diving for trepang, which had survived the ravages of the depression and was easy to recover, lying in shallow waters.1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 266
    Synonyms:
    sea cucumber

Forms of tripang

pluraltripangs

Questions about tripang

What is tripang the alternative form of?
Tripang is the alternative form of trepang.

Words near tripang in the dictionary

  1. tripalmitolein
  2. tripalmitoyl
  3. tripalmitoylated
  4. tripalmitoylglycerol
  5. tripamide
  6. tripang
  7. tripangs
  8. tripanosomatid
  9. tripanosomatids
  10. tripara
  11. triparalogous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tripang (page history and authors); trepang (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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