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trepang

NOUN
  1. of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese

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  • His name was Baderoon, and as he was unmarried and had been used to a roving life, having been several voyages to North Australia to catch trepang or “beche de mer”, I was in hopes of being able to keep him. The Malay Archipelago
  • Termed also trepang, sea cucumber, sea slug, cotton spinner, and known scientifically as Holothuridae, no less than twenty varieties have been described and are identified by popular and technical titles. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • _ -- There are a few species of _Holothuriæ_, of which the trepang is the best known example. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • The flesh of the trepang has to be drenched in water for a long time prior to cooking, in order to remove a lot of the gelatinous goo, or so I'm told.
  • The early fishers were Malays, also known as Macassans, from the Indonesian islands, and it seems they regularly sailed south in their sailing ships or praus to harvest, preserve, and take their trepang home.
  • The trepang is a sort of sea-slug, which is dried and used by the Chinese to make soup. Mark Seaworth
  • Macassan fishermen in search of trepang (sea slugs or beche-de-mer) began visiting northern Australia about the 1720s.
  • -- There are a few species of _Holothuria_, of which the trepang is the best known example. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
  • The company mainly deals in fresh trepang , Trepang pill and its series product.
  • In the Far East they are also exploited as a dried, salted or smoked food called trepang or beche-de-mer and they are also vital to the development of a healthy reef, acting like giant earthworms and recycling nutrients.
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