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salpas |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Salpa \Sal"pa\ (s[a^]l"p[.a]), n.; pl L. {Salp[ae]} (-p[=e]), E. {Salpas} (-p[.a]z). [NL.: cf L. salpa a kind of stockfish.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: Each species exists in two distinct forms, one of which lives solitary, and produces, by budding from an internal organ, a series of the other kind These are united together, side by side so as to form a chain, or cluster, often of large size. Each of the individuals composing the chain carries a single egg, which develops into the solitary kind
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