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“The creatures the natives are collecting are the holothurians, or sea-cucumbers,” answered the naturalist.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles

To reach land on the southern side of the bay we had to cross a broad reef of coral and coral sand, thickly overgrown with grass and corallines, and dotted with various species of holothurians.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; Ð called also Apoda or Apodes.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

There have always been many zoologists prepared to ascribe an ancestral character to the holothurians.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

Marine forms are usually attached to various sea-weeds, and many are found in the stomachs of molluscs, holothurians, ascidians and other denizens of the ocean.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various