trepang

• teripang, tripang

Borrowed from Malay teripang.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɪˈpaŋ/

trepang (plural trepangs)

1. Synonym of sea cucumber
   • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 266:

     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.

• trepanger
• trepanging