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holothurian |
(n): echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders
(n): marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies
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"'The bottom of the sea must have been a sad stinking muddy place, to judge from your shoes and stockings.'
"So it was too... but the annelids, my dear Graham, the annelids! Hundreds, nay thousands of annelids of at least six and thirty several kinds, some plumed and others plain. And wait until I tell you about my holothurians, my sea-slugs, my sea-cucumbers...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 74