salp
noun
ˈsalp 
variants or less commonly salpa
ˈsal-pə
: any of various transparent barrel-shaped or fusiform free-swimming tunicates (class Thaliacea) abundant in warm seas
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Andrew Jeffs, a marine science professor at the University of Auckland says that the pyrosome and the salp, a cousin of the pyrosome, are both important to tropical waters as a food source. 
Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Nov. 2021
Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Nov. 2021 Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin, a kind of deep-sea fish, from Greek salpē
First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above
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- incomputable
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