salp

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssalpa

   Broadertunicate

   Part ofgenus Salpa

Other forms of salp

plural

salps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about salp

What does salp mean?

salp means "minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end".

How many syllables are in salp?

salp has 1 syllable: salp.

What is another word for salp?

Close synonyms include salpa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is salp a common word?

salp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.