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. |
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| Noun | 1. |  salp - 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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