salp (s lp) also sal·pa (sl p )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  .]sal pi·form (slp-fôrm) adj. |
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
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| Noun | 1. |  salpa - minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each endtunicate, 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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