sea gherkin

English

Alternative forms

• sea girkin

Noun

sea gherkin (plural sea gherkins)

1. Any of a number of small holothurians resembling in form a gherkin, especially Pawsonia saxicola.

Hypernyms

• sea cucumber

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sea gherkin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)