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Definition of Trepangs
1. trepang [n] - See also: trepang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trepangs
Literary usage of Trepangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cruise of the "Alert": Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene by Richard William Coppinger (1885)
"We learned from the " Boss " that his men had been working the district for the
previous twelve months, and having now cleared off the trepangs from all the ..."
2. Mind in Nature: Or The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development of Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"To such a degree, moreover, is this carried in certain trepangs, ... At present
1 shall produce for illustration one of our native trepangs, in which, ..."
3. Mind in Nature: Or The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development of Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"To such a degree, moreover, is this carried in certain trepangs, ... At present
1 shall produce for illustration one of our native trepangs, in which, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"They are probably not sold there as products of the Atlantic ports of the New
World, but mixed with real Indian trepangs. For about eighty years also ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"Themost important exports are trepangs, pearl shells and sharks' fins, sent to
China. —JAPAN has a fine salmon fishery, particularly in the north, ..."
6. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"I want to know what a coral reef really looks like, and if you saw any trepangs
upon them ? And what sort of strata is the gold really in ? ..."
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