the.com/sea cucumber
A living vacuum cleaner that breathes through its anus and vomits its organs when scared.
means A soft-bodied, slow-moving marine animal related to sea urchins and starfish that crawls along the ocean floor eating detritus.
from Named simply for its shape — the leathery, bumpy body of these creatures resembles a cucumber, and the name appears straightforwardly across many languages' scientific and common terms. Its Latin genus Holothuria comes from Greek 'holothourion,' an old name for a similar sea creature, but the everyday English name is pure produce-aisle description: something vegetable-shaped washed up from the sea.
- defense move
- ejects intestines at predators, then regrows them
- respiration
- breathes using its butt, literally
- ocean role
- recycles seafloor waste into clean sand
- culinary status
- prized delicacy in Chinese banquet cuisine