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salpa

American

[sal-puh] / ˈsæl pə /

Also salp

noun

plural

salpas, salpae

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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Other Word Forms

salpiform

adjective

Etymology

Origin of salpa

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

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