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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
bêche-de-mer
 
PRONUNCIATION:  bshd-mâr
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. bêches-de-mer (  bshd-mâr)
See trepang.
ETYMOLOGY:French, alteration (influenced by bêche, grub) of biche-de-mer, from Portuguese bicho do mar : bicho, worm (from Late Latin bstulus, diminutive of Latin bstia, beast) + do, of the + mar, sea (from Latin mare; see mori- in Appendix I).
 
 
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