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salp  (slp) also sal·pa (slp)
n.
Any of various free-swimming tunicates of the genus Salpa, of warm seas, having a translucent, somewhat flattened, keglike body.
[From New Latin Salpa, genus name, from Latin, a kind of stockfish, from Greek salp.]
salpi·form (slp-fôrm) adj.
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Noun1.salp - minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each endsalp - minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end
salpa
tunicate, urochord, urochordate - primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva
genus Salpa - type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae
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