SALP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salp mean? 

• SALP (noun)
  The noun SALP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SALP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

salp; salpa

Hypernyms ("salp" is a kind of...):

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

Holonyms ("salp" is a member of...):

genus Salpa (type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae)

 Context examples 

Of the 100 salps Brandon surveyed from water samples collected in 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017, 100 percent had mini-microplastics in their guts.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

For answers, Brandon turned to salps, gelatinous filter-feeding invertebrates that suck in water to eat and to propel themselves around the upper 6,500 feet of the ocean.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)