GENUS SALPA

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Meaning:

Type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Salpa" is a kind of...):

chordate genus (any genus in the phylum Chordata)

Meronyms (members of "genus Salpa"):

salp; salpa (minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end)

Holonyms ("genus Salpa" is a member of...):

family Salpidae; Salpidae (a small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea)

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