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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ho·lo·thu·ri·an /-ˈθʊriən, ˈθjʊr-/
 海參(a.)海參的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hol·o·thu·ri·an a. Zool. Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea.
 Note: ☞ Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and bêche de mèr. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 holothurian
      n : echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles
          surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud
          feeders: sea cucumbers [syn: sea cucumber]