Definition of "salp" []

• Any of various free-swimming tunicates of the genus Salpa, of warm seas, having a translucent, somewhat flattened, keglike body. (noun)

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• "Oh, and the strange pram bugs that occupy salp tests…never mind, you need to read them all."
• "On the other hand, each salp of the chain has within it a true egg-cell."
• "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."