Definition of Trepangs

1. Noun. (plural of trepang) ¹

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Definition of Trepangs

1. trepang [n] - See also: trepang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trepangs

trendy
trenette
trenise
trenises
trental
trentals
trente-et-quarante
trenton period
treosulfan
trepan
trepanation
trepanations
trepaned
trepang
trepangs (current term)
trepaning
trepanned
trepanner
trepanners
trepanning
trepans
trepeget
trephination
trephinations
trephine
trephine biopsy
trephined
trephines
trephining

Literary usage of Trepangs

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

1. Cruise of the "Alert": Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene by Richard William Coppinger (1885)
"We learned from the " Boss " that his men had been working the district for the previous twelve months, and having now cleared off the trepangs from all the ..."

2. Mind in Nature: Or The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development of Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"To such a degree, moreover, is this carried in certain trepangs, ... At present 1 shall produce for illustration one of our native trepangs, in which, ..."

3. Mind in Nature: Or The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development of Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"To such a degree, moreover, is this carried in certain trepangs, ... At present 1 shall produce for illustration one of our native trepangs, in which, ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"They are probably not sold there as products of the Atlantic ports of the New World, but mixed with real Indian trepangs. For about eighty years also ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"Themost important exports are trepangs, pearl shells and sharks' fins, sent to China. —JAPAN has a fine salmon fishery, particularly in the north, ..."

6. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"I want to know what a coral reef really looks like, and if you saw any trepangs upon them ? And what sort of strata is the gold really in ? ..."

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