holothurian

1. 1.

   echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders

   Synonymssea cucumber

   Broaderechinoderm

   Narrowertrepang

   Part ofHolothuroidea

Other forms of holothurian

plural

holothurians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about holothurian

What does holothurian mean?

holothurian means "echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders".

How many syllables are in holothurian?

holothurian has 5 syllables: ho-lo-thu-ri-an. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for holothurian?

Close synonyms include sea cucumber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holothurian a common word?

holothurian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.