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Webster 1913 Edition
Salpa
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Sal′pa
(săl′pȧ)
, Noun.
pl. L.
Salpae
(săl′pē)
, E. Salpas
(săl′pȧz)
. [NL.: cf. L.
salpa
a kind of stockfish.] (Zool.)
A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.
☞ 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.