salp Zool.
(sælp)
Also salpe.
[a. F. salpe, ad. mod.L. salpa.]
= Salpa2.
| 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. vii. 222 The Salpes or biphores, as the French call them—phosphoric animals so transparent that all their internal organs..may be distinctly seen. 1850 Ogilvie, Salpa or Salp, a genus of soft-shelled or tunicated acephalous molluscs which float in the sea. 1896 tr. Boas' Text-bk. Zool. 540 The chains remain within the body-wall of the solitary salp. |