Definitions for salpas

salpas sal·pa

Spelling: [sal-puh]
IPA: /ˈsæl pə/

Salpas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in salpas (aalpss).

Definitions for salpas

noun

  1. any free-swimming, oceanic tunicate of the genus Salpa, having a transparent, more or less fusiform body.

Origin of salpas

1510-20; New Latin, special use of Latin salpa Greek sálpē kind of fish

Examples for salpas

The gill-cavity in salpa is much altered, the gills projecting into it dividing it into two chambers.

In Doliolum the body is barrel-shaped and the gills are less modified than in salpa.

The stolon, like that in salpa, contains a prolongation of the branchial sack.

Lastly, we had the good fortune to procure a specimen of an animal which appears to form a link between the salpa and Pyrosoma.

In order to move itself, the salpa has recourse to a singular artifice.

Secondly, a salpa, of the class which lives apart and has fine long fibres projecting from the hinder part of the body.

salpa, sal′pa, n. a remarkable genus of free-swimming Tunicates.

This most exceptional condition was first seen in the transparent salpa, but it may be witnessed in the young of most genera.

Perhaps salpa is the nearest animal, although the transparency of the body is nearly the only character they have in common.

Word Value for salpas
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7

Words with friends

9

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