Crossword-Solution: SALPA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Salpa | n. | A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SALPA | anagram | ASLAP, PALAS, PLAAS, SLAPA |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SALPA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A tunicate | 1 answer |
| Marine creature with a transparent, saclike body | 1 answer |
| Tiny creature in warm seas | 1 answer |
| Transparent sea creature | 1 answer |
| Tunicate fish. | 1 answer |
| Sea squirt | 2 answers |
| Oceanic tunicate | 2 answers |
| tunicate | 3 answers |
| Sea mollusk | 7 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SALPA (5)
Perhaps Salpa is the nearest animal, although the transparency of the body is nearly the only character they have in common.
Then as to Salpa, whose mode of generation has always been so great a bone of contention, I have a long series of observations and drawings which I have verified over and over again, and which, if correct, must give rise to quite a new view of the matter.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent different views of an animal (Salpa) slightly electrical, that we caught this evening.
The aggregate form of Salpa always gives rise to the solitary salps, and the solitary salps always give rise to chains of the aggregate salps.
But Mr Huxley shews, by observation and experiment on _Salpa_ and _Pyrosoma_, that each has independent powers of reproduction, and his facts are conclusive against the theory of 'alternation of generations.' The two generations, as now appears, are not of distinct individuals, but are both required to make a complete individual.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1961–2014).