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.
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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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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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On the other hand, each salp of the chain has within it a true egg-cell.
reesetee commented on the word salp
Hah. What a salp. ;-)
September 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word salp
Tunicates rule!
September 27, 2007