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Princeton's WordNet

  1. salp, salpanoun

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

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  1. salpanoun

    salp

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  1. salpa

    Salpa, also known as Salpidae, is a family of barrel-shaped marine planktonic tunicates (free-swimming invertebrates) found in the open ocean. They are known for their ability to form long chains of individual organisms. They feed by filtering particles from the water, thereby playing an essential role in the marine food chain and carbon cycling.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Salpanoun

    a genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix

  2. Etymology: [NL.: cf. L. salpa a kind of stockfish.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Salpa

    sal′pa, n. a remarkable genus of free-swimming Tunicates.—adjs. Sal′pian; Sal′piform.

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  1. palas

  2. palsa

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of salpa in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of salpa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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