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SALPA
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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:
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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