sea-cucumber

In response, in early 1995, sea-cucumber fishermen (peperinos) took over the Park buildings and Research Station and threatened to sabotage conservation services, harm staff and critically endangered species, and to interrupt tourism services unless the fisheries were reopened.

Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

In March, 1997 a park warden was shot and seriously wounded by illegal fishermen whilst trying to inspect an illegal fishing camp and sea-cucumber processing plant on the west coast of Isabela Island.

Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

It was composed of several kinds of fish, and slices of sea-cucumber, and different sorts of seaweed.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

After all, he'd twined me now and again for not eating snails, so he ought to be perfectly happy with jellied sea-cucumber.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

Though spiny, it did not resemble at all closely a sea-cucumber.

Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Moreover, these stomachs have digestive powers that are not to be despised, far surpassing even those popularly ascribed to the ostrich, for the sea-cucumber actually seems to feed upon coral, and even granite has been found in its stomach.

Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

[Footnote 1: The _Holothuria_ of naturalists -- a species of sea-slug or sea-cucumber found on the shores of Borneo and on most of the islands of the Pacific, and which being dried in the sun is considered a dainty by Chinese epicures.]

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

One sea product, the bêche-de-mer, a marine animal commonly called "sea-cucumber," is highly prized by the Chinese, who use large quantities; most of it is gathered by the Fijians.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

There was a sea-cucumber which nurses its young, having a brood cavity which is really formed out of the mouth: this is a peculiarity of a new

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

There was the "bêche-de-mer," the sea-cucumber, yellow or purplish-black, a shapeless mass lying in pools; this is

Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914