trepang

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trepang

/tɹɪˈpaŋ/ UK

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Borrowed from Malay teripang.

noun trepangs · teripang · tripang

Synonym of sea cucumber. There had been a drop in the mother-of-pearl shell market and quite a few of the pearling luggers had turned their attention to diving for trepang, which had survived the ravages of the depression and was easy to recover, lying in shallow waters.
Similar: sea cucumber

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@misc{trepang_2026,
  title = {trepang},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trepang},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}