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‖ trepang|triːˈpæŋ|
Also 8 tripam, 9 tripang, trepong.
[Malay trīpang (Yule). The early form tripam was app. from Fr.]
A marine animal, an echinoderm (Holothuria edulis), called also sea-cucumber, sea-slug, sea-swallow, or bêche-de-mer, eaten as a luxury by the Chinese.
1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies I. 277 [Celebes] furnishes..tripam, a species of mushroom, which increases in value in proportion to the roundness of it's form, and the blackness of it's colour. 1793J. Trapp Rochon's Voy. Madagascar, etc. 390 The tripam is a little spungy plant without root, and like a mushroom... It grows in great profusion in the island of Celebes. 1802Capt. Elmore in Naval Chron. VIII. 380 Sea swallow (called beach de mar by the Portuguese, and trepong by the Malays). 1836Penny Cycl. V. 188/2 The tripang swala, or sea-slug. 1879Wright Anim. Life 572 So far as we know, but one species is used for food. This, the Trepang of the Chinese (Holothuria edulis), is found in the Indian Ocean.
b. attrib. and Comb., as trepang-fisher, trepang-fishery.
1846J. L. Stokes Discov. Australia I. vii. 211 These lighter coloured people are Malays, captured from the Trepang fishers. 1878P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Prod. Sea i. ix. 105 The trepang fishery of the Pacific and Eastern Seas. 1904Howitt Native Tribes S.E. Australia i. 26 The trepang fishers..are the Bugis, a Malayan people, who form the principal nation of the Island of Celebes. |