Beche-de-mer, a slug, called also the trepang, procured on the coral reefs of the Pacific, which is dried and eaten as a dainty by the Chinese.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Becca`ria, Cæsare Bonesana, Marquis of * Becher, Johann Joachim