any of various minute floating animals of the genus Salpa, of warm oceans, having a transparent barrel-shaped body with openings at either end: class Thaliacea, subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
Also (less commonly): salp, salpian, salpid
Derived forms
salpiform (ˈsælpɪˌfɔːm)
adjective
Word origin
C19: from New Latin, from Latin: variety of stockfish, from Greek salpē