holothuria

Many creatures are unattached but motionless, as is the case with oysters and the so-called holothuria.

The History of Animals 2002

"Listen." 1 read aloud to Kwan: --- Caninecutlets, bird fricassee, stewed holothuria, worms, and snakes.

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

The yield of the trawling was extraordinarily abundant; large asterids, crinoids, sponges, holothuria, a gigantic sea-spider (Pycnogonid), masses of worms, crustacea, &c.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Near where we stood the ground was rather more open, and we saw the black mud covered with numberless marine animals, sea-urchins, _holothuria_, or sea-slugs, crabs, and several other creatures, many of brilliant hues, which contrasted curiously with the dark mud over which they were crawling.

In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Thus, too, the same power of progressive individuation articulates the tentacula of the polypus and holothuria into antennæ; thereby manifesting the full emersion and eminency of irritability as a power which acts in, and gives its own character to, that of reproduction.

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

In the future, 1 shall strive to be less than honourable 1 1 put the journal down. 1 wonder what holothuria is. "

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995