ˈsalpə noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin salpa, a kind of stockfish, from Greek salpē
1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Salpidae) of transparent barrel-shaped or fusiform free-swimming oceanic tunicates that are abundant in warm seas and that exist in two forms one of which lives solitary and reproduces by budding from an internal organ a series of hermaphroditic individuals of the other kind that are united side by side in a chain or cluster and usually carry each only a single egg destined to develop into an individual of the solitary kind
2. plural sal·pae -(ˌ)pē, -ˌpī or salpas : any tunicate of the genus Salpa or family Salpidae