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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SEA CUCUMBER

So named because of its cucumber-like shape.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SEA CUCUMBER

sea cucumber play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEA CUCUMBER

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Sea cucumber is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEA CUCUMBER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sea cucumber

Sea cucumber

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. The number of holothurian /ˌhɒlɵˈθjʊəriən/ species worldwide is about 1716 with the greatest number being in the Asia Pacific region. Many of these are gathered for human consumption and some species are cultivated in aquaculture systems. The harvested product is variously referred to as trepang, bêche-de-mer or balate. Sea cucumbers serve a useful role in the marine ecosystem as they help recycle nutrients, breaking down detritus and other organic matter after which bacteria can continue the degradation process. Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below the skin, calcified structures that are usually reduced to isolated microscopic ossicles joined by connective tissue. In some species these can sometimes be enlarged to flattened plates, forming an armour. In pelagic species such as the Sea Cucumber, the skeleton and a calcareous ring are absent.

Definition of sea cucumber in the English dictionary

The definition of sea cucumber in the dictionary is any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having an elongated body covered with a leathery skin and bearing a cluster of tentacles at the oral end. They usually creep on the sea bed or burrow in sand.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEA CUCUMBER

sea bream
sea breeze
sea buckthorn
sea butterfly
sea calf
sea captain
sea change
sea chest
sea cow
sea crossing
sea defences
sea dog
sea duck
sea eagle
sea eel
sea egg
sea elephant
sea fan
sea fight
sea fir

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEA CUCUMBER

accession number
call number
climber
cool as a cucumber
cucumber
house number
Humber
lumber
mobile number
number
outnumber
phone number
plumber
reference number
registration number
serial number
slumber
social security number
street number
telephone number
VAT number

Synonyms and antonyms of sea cucumber in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sea cucumber» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEA CUCUMBER

Find out the translation of sea cucumber to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sea cucumber from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sea cucumber» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海参
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pepino de mar
570 millions of speakers

English

sea cucumber
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्र ककड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خيار البحر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

морской огурец
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pepino do mar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সামুদ্রিক শসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

concombre de mer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

gamat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Seegurke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ナマコ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

해삼
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Segara timun
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

dưa chuột biển
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் வெள்ளரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समुद्री काकडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Deniz hıyarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cetriolo di mare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ogórek morski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

морський огірок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

castravete de mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγγούρι της θάλασσας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

see komkommer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sjögurka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sjøpølse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sea cucumber

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA CUCUMBER»

The term «sea cucumber» is regularly used and occupies the 93.149 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA CUCUMBER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sea cucumber» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sea cucumber» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sea cucumber

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA CUCUMBER»

Discover the use of sea cucumber in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sea cucumber and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advances in Sea Cucumber Aquaculture and Management
This publication contains current information on the status of world sea cucumber resources and use, focusing on established countries such as China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as relative newcomers to ...
Alessandro Lovatelli, C. Conand, 2004
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Namako: sea cucumber : a novel
Ellen, a ten-year-old multiracial girl, no longer a child, not quite a teenager, moves from America to Japan with her family & finds herself in a world of spirits & ancestors, ghost stories & secrets.
Linda Watanabe McFerrin, 1998
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Advances in sea cucumber aquaculture and management
This publication contains current information on the status of world sea cucumber resources and use, focusing on established countries such as China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as relative newcomers to ...
Alessandro Lovatelli, C. Conand, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
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Status and management of the sea cucumber fishery of La ...
General goals of management regulations The management plan for the sea cucumber fisheries in Province Nord and Province Sud should be based on some guiding principles about what the stakeholders want out of the fishery. In this case ...
Purcell, S.W., Hugues Gossuin, Natacha S. Agudo, 2009
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Putting into practice an ecosystem approach to managing sea ...
Pandemic overfishing to critical levels currently threatens the persistence of sea cucumber fisheries And The important role they play in the livelihoods of coastal fishers.
Steven W. Purcell, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
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Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, ...
The sea cucumber, Thy one mexicana (Figure 7.34), is a sluggish member of the fauna that is found in and around the grass flats. It is rather small (2 to 3 cm long) as sea cucumbers go, so it is easily confused with a small rock or bit of debris.
Susan B. Rothschild, 2004
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Trukese-English Dictionary
meem (nu.): midrib of a leaf, inner cord of a sea cucumber. mwanenep (nu . ): a sea cucumber. nifanan, nifanang (nu. ): a species of sea cucumber. nifen (nu.): a sea cucumber (edible, small, found in achekken coral). nisenisenkamey (nu.) ...
‎1990
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"Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!": A Theme from In Praise of Old Haiku, ...
A large pb over a million characters in length. The text is 11 pt, ftnotes, 10 pt. It includes approx. 650 Japanese poems in 12 pt Japanese font, with a 10.5 pt romanization and 9 pt gloss.
Robin D. Gill, 2003
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Asia-Pacific Conference on Science and Management of Coastal ...
The concentrations of zinc and copper in the sediment at the two sites differed significantly but the metal level in the animals from the two sites were similar, suggesting that this sea cucumber was not an ideal bioindicator of heavy metal ...
Yuk-Shan Wong, Nora Fung-Yee Tam, 1997
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Echinodermata
Maier MS, Roccatagliata AJ, Kuriss A, Chludil H, Seldes AM, Pujol CA, Damonte EB (2001) Two new cytotoxic and virucidal trisulfated triterpene glycosides from the Antarctic sea cucumber Staurocucumis liouvillei. J Nat Prod 64:732–736 ...
Valeria Matranga, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEA CUCUMBER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sea cucumber is used in the context of the following news items.
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State board bans harvesting of sea cucumbers
The state Board of Land and Natural Resources unanimously approved an emergency rule Friday to ban the harvesting of sea cucumbers for 120 days in ... «Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Jun 15»
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Sea cucumber harvesting banned for 4 months in Hawaii
HONOLULU —The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) approved a rule on Friday to make it illegal to take any species of sea cucumber from ... «KITV Honolulu, Jun 15»
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State Land Board approves emergency ban on sea cucumber
HONOLULU —A snapshot of a boatload of sea cucumbers taken recently in ... will be affected, they support this temporary ban on the taking of sea cucumbers. «KITV Honolulu, Jun 15»
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State proposes emergency ban following mass harvesting of sea
The Department of Land and Natural Resources is proposing an emergency rule that will ban any taking of sea cucumbers for the next 120 days. «KHON2, Jun 15»
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Palau burns four Vietnamese boats caught illegally poaching sea
The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, has set fire to four boats of Vietnamese caught poaching sea cucumbers and ... «South China Morning Post, Jun 15»
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Four arrested in Tamil Nadu for smuggling sea cucumbers
TUTICORIN: The Coastal Security Group (marine police) on Sunday arrested four people in Tuticorin on charges of smuggling sea cucumbers. The police ... «Times of India, May 15»
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Gov't prohibits sea cucumber fishing
According to Minister of Agriculture, Labour and Social Security Derrick Kellier, because the sea cucumber industry has been unregulated and uncontrolled, and ... «Jamaica Observer, Apr 15»
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600 Kilograms of Sea Cucumber Seized in Tamil Nadu
Nagapattinam: A large quantity of sea cucumber, an endangered species under the Wildlife Protection Act, has been seized from a fishing hamlet near ... «NDTV, Apr 15»
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Sea cucumber at risk due to overfishing
While there is growing conservation momentum for shark, the trade in sea cucumber, another high-value Chinese delicacy, has not diminished. Seven species ... «FIS, Feb 15»
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California man accused of smuggling endangered fish to Asia
Federal prosecutors say Kam Wing Chan used his furniture store as a front to import endangered abalone, sea cucumber and Totoaba from Mexico and export ... «89.3 KPCC, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Sea cucumber [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sea-cucumber>. Apr 2024 ».
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