trepang
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trepang (plural trepangs)
- Synonym of sea cucumber
- 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 266:
- 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.