sea pudding
An archaic British term for sea cucumber — the soft-bodied marine invertebrate of the class Holothuroidea.
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An archaic British term for sea cucumber — the soft-bodied marine invertebrate of the class Holothuroidea. The name evokes its soft, cylindrical, slightly gelatinous appearance. Sea cucumbers are now widely eaten in East Asian cuisine; in older British usage the term was more descriptive than culinary.
The sailors had no name for the creature except sea pudding.
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(UK, archaic) Any of various sea cucumbers.
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