trepang
/tɹɪˈpaŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of sea cucumber.
Example Sentences
- "There had been a drop in the mother-of-pearl shell market and quite a few of the pearling luggers had turned their attention to diving for trepang, which had survived the ravages of the depression and was easy to recover, lying in shallow waters."
- "The results of all methods on the RUIE detection dataset are shown in Fig. 8, where our method not only achieves superior enhancement but also outperforms other methods in the detection of distant urchins and trepangs."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /tɹɪˈpaŋ/