salpa

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.

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[From New Latin Salpa, genus name, from Latin, a kind of stockfish, from Greek salp.]

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salpi·form (slp-fôrm) adj.

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salpa [ˈsælpə]

n pl -pas, -pae [-piː]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) 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)

[from New Latin, from Latin: variety of stockfish, from Greek salpē]

salpiform  [ˈsælpɪˌfɔːm] adj

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

salpa - minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end salp 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