salpa

American

[sal-puh] / ˈsæl pə /

Also salp

noun

any free-swimming, oceanic tunicate of the genus Salpa, having a transparent, more or less fusiform body.

salpa British

/ ˈsælpə, ˈsælpɪˌfɔːm /

noun

any of various minute floating animals of the genus Salpa, of warm oceans, having a transparent barrel-shaped body with openings at either end: class Thaliacea, subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)

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Derived Forms

salpiform

adjective

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Etymology

Origin of salpa

1510–20; < New Latin, special use of Latin salpa < Greek sálpē kind of fish

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salpas

The salpas journey also by groups, joining in chaplets, as we have observed of the dagysa.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

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