Hol`o*thu"ri*an (?), a.
() Belonging to the Holothurioidea.
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n.
One of the Holothurioidea.
⇒ Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and beche de mer. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.
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