Definition of Salpian

1. n. A salpa.

Definition of Salpian

1. salpa [n -S] - See also: salpa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salpian

saloonkeeping
saloonlike
saloons
saloop
saloops
salop
salopettes
salopian
salops
salorthids
salp
salpa
salpae
salpas
salpian (current term)
salpians
salpicon
salpicons
salpid
salpids
salpiform
salpiglosses
salpiglossis
salping-
salpingectomies
salpingectomy
salpingemphraxis
salpinges
salpingian

Literary usage of Salpian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The salpian is therefore not twisted into a U-shaped body but is secondarily ... Life Cycle of a salpian (Doliolum).—An alternation of generations exists ..."

2. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The salpian is therefore not twisted into a U-shaped body but is secondarily ... Life Cycle of a salpian (Doliolum).—An alternation of generations exists ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"It is identical in structure with a single villus contained in a single venous cell of the mammalian placenta, except that in the salpian placenta the ..."

4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"It is identical in structure with a single villus contained in a single venous cell of the mammalian placenta, except that in the salpian placenta the ..."

5. Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts by Augustus Addison Gould (1870)
"... changing incessantly its auricle to ventricle and its ventricle to auricle, its arteries to veins and its veins to arteries." Among the salpian ..."

6. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"... changing incessantly its auricle to ventricle, and its ventricle to auricle, its arteries to veins, and its veins to arteries." Among the salpian ..."

7. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1869)
"... except that in the salpian placenta the villus belongs to the parent, the cell to the foetus ; the reverse obtaining in the Mammalia. ..."

8. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The salpian is therefore not twisted into a U-shaped body but is secondarily ... Life Cycle of a salpian (Doliolum).—An alternation of generations exists ..."

9. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The salpian is therefore not twisted into a U-shaped body but is secondarily ... Life Cycle of a salpian (Doliolum).—An alternation of generations exists ..."

10. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"It is identical in structure with a single villus contained in a single venous cell of the mammalian placenta, except that in the salpian placenta the ..."

11. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"It is identical in structure with a single villus contained in a single venous cell of the mammalian placenta, except that in the salpian placenta the ..."

12. Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts by Augustus Addison Gould (1870)
"... changing incessantly its auricle to ventricle and its ventricle to auricle, its arteries to veins and its veins to arteries." Among the salpian ..."

13. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"... changing incessantly its auricle to ventricle, and its ventricle to auricle, its arteries to veins, and its veins to arteries." Among the salpian ..."

14. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1869)
"... except that in the salpian placenta the villus belongs to the parent, the cell to the foetus ; the reverse obtaining in the Mammalia. ..."

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