Definition of Salps

1. Noun. (plural of salp) ¹

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Definition of Salps

1. salp [n] - See also: salp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salps

salpingopharyngeal
salpingopharyngeal fold
salpingopharyngeal muscle
salpingopharyngei
salpingopharyngeus
salpingoplasty
salpingorrhagia
salpingorrhaphy
salpingoscopy
salpingostomatomy
salpingostomy
salpingotomy
salpinx
salpinx uterina
salpinxes
salps (current term)
salpæ
sals
salsa
salsaed
salsafies
salsafy
salsaing
salsalate
salsalike
salsamentarious
salsas
salse
salsero
salseros

Literary usage of Salps

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

1. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"Floating among the large salps we often find chains of smaller salps, ... These smaller salps may be as big as a hazel-nut, and the chain or row of them is ..."

2. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"Floating among the large salps we often find chains of smaller salps, ... These smaller salps may be as big as a hazel-nut, and the chain or row of them is ..."

3. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"The solitary salps are produced sexually, the chains of salps asexually. The individuals of the chains of salps are sexual animals, which form no stolon ..."

4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"Development of the chain of sexual salps. My description of the embryonic development of Salpa would not be complete without some reference to the ..."

5. The Story of Life in the Seas by Sydney John Hickson (1898)
"A few words must now be said about the salps, because in some seas the water is on occasions so full of them that they seem to be packed together ready for ..."

6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"Development of the chain of sexual salps. My description of the embryonic development of Salpa would not be complete without some reference to the ..."

7. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"Floating among the large salps we often find chains of smaller salps, ... These smaller salps may be as big as a hazel-nut, and the chain or row of them is ..."

8. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"Floating among the large salps we often find chains of smaller salps, ... These smaller salps may be as big as a hazel-nut, and the chain or row of them is ..."

9. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"The solitary salps are produced sexually, the chains of salps asexually. The individuals of the chains of salps are sexual animals, which form no stolon ..."

10. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"Development of the chain of sexual salps. My description of the embryonic development of Salpa would not be complete without some reference to the ..."

11. The Story of Life in the Seas by Sydney John Hickson (1898)
"A few words must now be said about the salps, because in some seas the water is on occasions so full of them that they seem to be packed together ready for ..."

12. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"Development of the chain of sexual salps. My description of the embryonic development of Salpa would not be complete without some reference to the ..."

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