noun
- plural of salp; small barrel-shaped marine animals that swim in chains or colonies
Usage: marine biology
Examples
- The researchers collected samples of salps from the ocean surface.
- Salps are important filter feeders in marine ecosystems.
- Large blooms of salps can be found in temperate and polar waters.
- The transparent bodies of salps make them difficult to spot underwater.
- Salps reproduce both sexually and asexually in their life cycle.
- Marine biologists study salps to understand ocean food webs.