salpingœca

[ Gr.salpingx (gen it.salping gos ) = a trumpet, and oikeō to inhabit.] Zool .: The typical genus of the family Salp in goe cide (q. v.). Animalcules solitary, plastic, and variable in form, secreting and inhabiting a fixed, chitinous, transparent sheath, either se ile or mounted on a pedicle. They inhabit salt and fresh water, and increase usually by transverse fi ion. Kent divides them into two sections, according as (1) the pedicle is absent, rudimentary, or exceptionally developed, or (2) persistent, and conspicuously developed. Species numerous. săl-pin-gœ-çi-dæ, s. pl. [Modern Latin salp in gæc (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ.] Zool .: A family of Choano-flag ell at a, with three genera: Salpingoæca, Lagenæca, and Polycæca. Animalcules secreting and inhabiting independent or socially united sheaths or lorica, free-floating or attached to aquatic objects; flagellum single, terminal, with collar, contractile vesicles two or more, posterior, endoplast sub-central. From salt and fresh water. săl-pińx, s . [Gr.=a tube or trumpet.] *1. Music : The ancient Greek trumpet. 2. Anat .: The Eustachian tube (q. v.). săl-są, s. [See def.] An abbreviation for Sarsaparilla. săl-sa-fỹ, s. [SALSIFY.] *săl-sa-men-tär-I-ous, a. [Latin sals amenta rius , from sal =salt.) Pertaining to, or containing salt; salted. sălse, s. [Fr., from Lat. sals us =salted.] Geol.: An eruption of mud, with heat and vapor, from a vent in a locality where there is no volcano of the normal type. săl-si-fỹ, săl-sa-fỹ, s. (French sals if is =goats beard.] salsilla