Definition of Holothuria

1. Noun. Type genus of the Holothuridae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Holothuria
Generic synonyms: Echinoderm Genus
Group relationships: Family Holothuridae, Holothuridae
Member holonyms: Holothuria Edulis, Trepang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holothuria

Holmgren's wool test
Holmgren-Golgi canals
Holocanthus tricolor
Holocaust
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denier
Holocaust deniers
Holocene
Holocene epoch
Holocentridae
Holocentrus
Holocentrus ascensionis
Holocentrus bullisi
Holocentrus coruscus
Holofernes
Holothuria
Holothuria edulis
Holothuridae
Holothuroidea
Holstein
Holstein-Friesian
Holstein-Lewis fracture
Holt
Holt-Oram syndrome
Holter
Holter monitoring
Holthouse
Holthouse's hernia
Holton
Holy Alliance

Literary usage of Holothuria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"holothuria Bruguiere, 1791. The effect of the suspension will be to retain ... Accept holothuria as dating from Bruguiere, 1791, despite the existence of ..."

2. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Rymer Jones (1841)
"The generative system of the holothuria is essentially similar to that found in the ... No ganglia have as yet been discovered even in the holothuria; ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1830)
"... submit the following memoir on the subject*. * A beautiful memoir on the structure of the holothuria tubulosa by Tiedemann was published in 1816. EDIT. ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The largest American species is holothuria Florid/ana, which abounds just below .... holothuria ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1830)
"... a complete account of it may be interesting to naturalists, I >f following memoir on the subject!*. • A beautiful n icture of the holothuria tubulosa bv ..."

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