trepang
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /tɹɪˈpaŋ/
trepang (plural trepangs)
- Bêche-de-mer, sea cucumber.
- 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 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.
- 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 266:
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