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salp
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From French salpe, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sálp?, “porgy”).
Noun
salp (plural salps)
- Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae.
- 1996, Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman, Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, page 132,
- Salps are capable of self-propulsion, but for the most part, these translucent, gelatinous-looking animals float in mid-water going wherever the prevailing currents take them. […] At times a number of buds are attached to one another in linked chains commonly called salp chains.
- 1997, L. P. Madin, Sensory Ecology of Salps (Tunicata, Thaliacea): More Questions than Answers, Petra H. Lenz, Daniel K. Hartline, Jennifer E. Purcell, David L. Macmillan (editors), Zooplankton: Sensory Ecology and Physiology, Gordon and Breach Publishers, page 565,
- Observations of some species suggest that salps form spawning aggregations near the surface in the early morning, and that spawning is synchronized with chain release to maximize fertilization success.
- 2012, Claus Nielsen, Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla, Oxford University Press, page 55,
- Lampetia has a rather undifferentiated larval stage (called Gastrodes) that parasitizes salps (Mortensen 1912; Komai 1922).
- 1996, Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman, Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, page 132,
Synonyms
- salpa
Translations
Anagrams
- ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, laps, pals, slap
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin salpa (“stockfish”), from Ancient Greek ????? (sálp?, “a species of fish”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?lp/
- Hyphenation: salp
- Rhymes: -?lp
Noun
salp f (plural salpen, diminutive salpje n)
- salp, any member of the class Thaliacea
Derived terms
- salpenketen
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palp
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pælp/
Etymology
- (verb): From French palper.
- (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
- Both ultimately from Latin palpare, palpari (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).
Noun
palp (plural palps or palpi)
- (zoology) A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating.
- Synonyms: palpus, pedipalp
Noun
palp (countable and uncountable, plural palps)
- A fleshy part of a fingertip.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin.
- 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown
- The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head. Plunge into the dust-moted rough blackness of his hair, smooth back downward over the deep-brown nape of his neck.
- 1984, W. Boyd, Stars & Bars i.i.11:
- With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.
- 1998, Renny Christopher, Linda Strom, Lisa Orr, Working Class Studies: 1 & 2, Feminist Press at CUNY ?ISBN, page 165
- When Mariuchi caresses the plant, for example, sensuously emitting from the palps of her fingers, a siren song.
- 2008, John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, New Directions Publishing ?ISBN, page 130
- He tested the blade against the palp of his thumb, then returned to the living room and decisively, scrape by scrape, cut away the hex sign, leaving a halo of ragged wood.
- 2012, Sean Stewart, Star Wars: Dark Rendezvous, Random House ?ISBN
- The bag seethed in her hand, not unpleasantly, as computational monofilaments shifted and flowed under her touch until they cradled the palps of her fingers.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- (medicine, uncountable, colloquial) Short for palpation.
Synonyms
- (appendage): pedipalp
Translations
Verb
palp (third-person singular simple present palps, present participle palping, simple past and past participle palped)
- To feel, to explore by touch.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 729:
- It is not possible to examine a male patient without making him undress and actually palping him all over.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 729:
Translations
Adjective
palp (not comparable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Palpatory; obtained by palpation.
- palp blood pressure
Related terms
- palpability
- palpable
- palpate
- palpation
- palpiform
- palpitate
- palpitation
Further reading
- palp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- palp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- palp at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Appl., Lapp, appl., plap
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