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

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salp

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4 lettersPronunciation /sælp/Part of speech nounSorted alpsStarts with SEnds with P0 clues

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

From French salpe, from Ancient Greek σᾰ́λπη (sắlpē, “porgy”). Doublet of salpa.

“Observations of some species suggest that salps form spawning aggregations near the surface in the early morning, and that spawning is synchronized with chain release to maximize fertilization success.”
“Lampetia has a rather undifferentiated larval stage (called Gastrodes) that parasitizes salps (Mortensen 1912; Komai 1922).”

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