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Meanings of salp in English

Spanish
salpidae

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

        salpidae
        Usage of salp in English
        1
        This solitary salp reproduces asexually to make another chain of salps.
        Wired
        2
        How a solitary salp gets around is fundamentally different from how a fish moves.
        Wired
        3
        That tower there"-some irregular smudge-"was the skin library, and those were the salp vats."
        The Scar
        4
        Not that you should go and slap a bunch of salp-inspired jets all over your underwater robot.
        Wired
        5
        So in the end you have an aggregate salp that benefits from uncoordinated pulsing yet still manages to generate efficient wake.
        Wired
        6
        Not pictured are Larry Ankrom, Steve Etter, Bill Hagmaier, and Tom Salp.
        Mindhunter
        7
        Salps, on the other hand, largely maintain their shape as they jet around.
        Wired
        8
        Not even angel-wing clams or salps have ever given off such a powerful light.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
        9
        Salps clogged nets, impairing fishing activities along the coast.
        Pubmed
        10
        Salps have a goofy way of going about life.
        Wired
        11
        Swimmers were scared by the gelatinous appearance of the salps, and thought they were jellyfish.
        Pubmed
        12
        Salpingitis is derived from two words: Salping, meaning tube; ltis, meaning inflammation; Fallopian was the discoverer.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        13
        Salps are usually found in the Mediterranean and adjacent seas but with the ocean warming they are moving north.
        The Irish Times
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for salp
        Spanish
        salpidae