Beche-de-mer
a trepang.
often, bêche-de-mer. neo-melanesian.
historical examples
on the reefs of the southern ocean is found a kind of sea-slug termed the beche-de-mer.
chambers’s journal of popular literature, science, and art various
there were traders old and young, beche-de-mer fishermen, old beach-combers and blackbirders.
through the south seas with jack london martin johnson
we must fill the three schooners with copra and beche-de-mer.
south sea tales jack london
noun (pl) bêches-de-mer (ˌbɛʃdəˈmɛə), bêche-de-mer
another name for trepang
see beach-la-mar
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