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SALPA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: salpae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end

Synonyms:

salp; salpa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("salpa" is a kind of...):

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

Holonyms ("salpa" is a member of...):

genus Salpa (type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae)

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