salpa

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Noun

HYPHEN

sal=pa

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun salpa has 1 sense

salpa(n = noun.animal) salp - minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end;

is a kind of tunicate, urochord, urochordate

is a member of genus salpa

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CIDE DICTIONARY

salpa, n. [NL.: cf. L. salpa a kind of stockfish.].

A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix. [1913 Webster]

" Each species exists in two distinct forms, one of which lives solitary, and produces, by budding from an internal organ, a series of the other kind. These are united together, side by side, so as to form a chain, or cluster, often of large size. Each of the individuals composing the chain carries a single egg, which develops into the solitary kind." [1913 Webster]