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Sea Girkin :: Sea girkin () Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.

Holothurian :: Holothurian (a.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea.

Sea Cucumber :: Sea cucumber () Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa)..

Sea Pudding :: Sea pudding () Any large holothurian.

Holothure :: Holothure (n.) A holothurian.

Sea Slug :: Sea slug () A holothurian.

Apodes :: Apodes (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta..

Synaptase :: Synapta (n.) A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix..

Trepang :: Trepang (n.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug..

Pneumophora :: Pneumophora (n. pl.) A division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree..

Auricularia :: Auricularia (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix..

Pedata :: Pedata (n. pl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill..

Holothurian :: Holothurian (n.) One of the Holothurioidea.

Elasipoda :: Elasipoda (n. pl.) An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.

Apneumona :: Apneumona (n. pl.) An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

Sea Orange :: Sea orange () A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

Fierasfer :: Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian..

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