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tre⋅pang

  [tri-pang]
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–noun
any of various holothurians or sea cucumbers, as Holothuria edulis, used as food in China.
Origin:
1775–85; < Malay təripaŋ (sp. teripang) < an unidentified source
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tre·pang   (trĭ-pāng')   
n.  A sea cucumber of the genus Holothuria of the southern Pacific and Indian oceans, dried or smoked for use as an ingredient in soup, especially in China and Indonesia. Also called bêche-de-mer.

[Malay teripang.]
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trepang

boiled, dried, and smoked flesh of sea cucumbers (phylum Echinodermata) used to make soups. Most beche-de-mer comes from the southwestern Pacific, where the animals (any of a dozen species of the genera Holothuria, Stichopus, and Thelonota) are obtained on coral reefs. Beche-de-mer is consumed chiefly in China.

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