Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various pelagic tunicates of the order Salpida, having a translucent, somewhat flattened, barrel-shaped body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of Salpa; one of the Salpidæ; a salpian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family
Salpidæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of a group of free-swimming
tunicates of the genus Salpa
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Oh, and the strange pram bugs that occupy salp tests…never mind, you need to read them all.
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Oh, and the strange pram bugs that occupy salp tests…never mind, you need to read them all.
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The solitary salp produces in its interior a little stolon or diverticulum which contains an outgrowth from the circulatory system, and this stolon gradually becomes pinched off into the members of the chain of the aggregate form.
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The original salp produced from the egg gives rise to many salps, which may either remain attached in a chain, or, breaking away from one another, may live separately.
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Each salp of the aggregate form contains within it an embryo receiving nutrition from the mother by a connection similar to the placenta by which the embryo of a mammal receives nourishment from the blood of the mother.
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On the other hand, each salp of the chain has within it a true egg-cell.
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Each salp of the aggregate form contains within it an embryo receiving nutrition from the mother by a connection similar to the placenta by which the embryo of a mammal receives nourishment from the blood of the mother.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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The original salp produced from the egg gives rise to many salps, which may either remain attached in a chain, or, breaking away from one another, may live separately.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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The solitary salp produces in its interior a little stolon or diverticulum which contains an outgrowth from the circulatory system, and this stolon gradually becomes pinched off into the members of the chain of the aggregate form.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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On the other hand, each salp of the chain has within it a true egg-cell.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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Salps are jelly-like sea creatures, so humble that few people even know they exist.
Weatherwatch: how the humble salp is helping to fight the climate crisis Jeremy Plester 2021
reesetee commented on the word salp
Hah. What a salp. ;-)
September 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word salp
Tunicates rule!
September 27, 2007