trepang

/trih-pang/US // trɪˈpæŋ //UK // (trɪˈpæŋ) //

特普朗,特普岗

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various holothurians or sea cucumbers, as Holothuria edulis, used as food in China.

The town lies in a fertile plain and deals in rice, trepang and pina.
Sea-cucumbers, as they are popularly called, are also known by the name of trepang and sea-slug.
The trepang were found about the rocks on the beach in great numbers, as they were also on the South Island.
A thousand trepang make a picol, of about 125 Dutch pounds; and 100 picols are a cargo for a proa.
Besides trepang, they trade in sharks' fins and birds' nests, the latter being worth about 3000 dollars the picol.