salpa
noun
any free-swimming, oceanic tunicate of the genus Salpa, having a transparent, more or less fusiform body.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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 Thomasina Ross