English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
sea cucumber (plural sea cucumbers)
- An echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin.
- Synonyms: bêche-de-mer, holothurian, trepang, (archaic) holothure
- Hyponym: swimming sea cucumber
Derived terms
Translations
sea cucumber
- Afrikaans: seekomkommer
- Arabic: خيار البحر
- Azerbaijani: dəniz xiyarı
- Bislama: bislama
- Bulgarian: морска краставица f (morska krastavica)
- Catalan: cogombre de mar m
- Cebuano: balat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 海參 / 海参 (zh) (hǎishēn)
- Cornish: kukomber mor m
- Dutch: zeekomkommer (nl) c
- Esperanto: markukumo
- Finnish: merimakkara (fi)
- French: bêche-de-mer (fr) f, holothurie (fr) f, concombre de mer (fr) m
- Galician: mexacán (gl) m, carallote (gl) m
- German: Seegurke (de) f
- Greek: ολοθούριο n (olothoúrio)
- Ancient Greek: ὁλοθούριον n (holothoúrion)
- Greenlandic: inalugalik
- Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן יָם m (m'laf'fon yam)
- Hungarian: tengeriuborka (hu)
- Icelandic: sæbjúga n
- Indonesian: teripang (id)
- Irish: súmaire cladaigh m
- Italian: cetriolo di mare (it) m, oloturia (it) f
- Japanese: 海鼠 (ja) (なまこ, namako), ナマコ (ja) (なまこ, namako)
- Khmer: ឈ្លើងសមុទ្រ (chləəng saʼmot)
- Korean: 해삼(海蔘) (haesam)
- Malay: teripang (ms), timun laut, gamat
- Mokilese: jipenpen
- Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshtsoh chʼééh digháhii
- Nootka: taaʔinwa, teeʔinwa
- Northern Sami: bodneluomi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjøpølse m or f
- Nynorsk: sjøpølse f
- Polish: strzykwa (pl) f
- Portuguese: holotúria, pepino-do-mar (pt) m
- Romanian: castravete de mare m
- Russian: голоту́рия (ru) f (golotúrija), морско́й огуре́ц m (morskój oguréc), трепа́нг (ru) m (trepáng)
- Saanich: ŦIȻT
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трп m
- Roman: trp (sh) m
- Spanish: holoturoideo m, pepino de mar (es) m, cohombro m, carajo de mar m
- Swedish: sjögurka (sv) c
- Tagalog: balatan
- Tausug: bāt, talipang
- Thai: ปลิงทะเล (bpling-tá-lee)
- Tibetan: མཚོ་གནས་ཁི་ར (mtsho gnas khi ra)
- Turkish: denizhıyarı (tr)
- Vietnamese: hải sâm (vi), đồn đột, rum (vi), dưa chuột biển, đỉa biển, đỉa bể
- Welsh: chwerwddwr y môr m
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