Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling the rungs of a ladder; ladderlike. Used of certain tissues and cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a ladder; resembling a ladder.
- In conchology, resembling or related to Scalaria; scalarian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to a scalaria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the form of a
ladder
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is a "scalariform" Helix aspersa shell from the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.
Archive 2007-10-01 AYDIN 2007
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This is a "scalariform" Helix aspersa shell from the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.
Interesting animal meme AYDIN 2007
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The xylem (Fig. 68, _C_, _x_) is made up principally of large empty cells, with pointed ends, whose walls are marked with closely set, narrow, transverse pits, giving them the appearance of little ladders, whence they are called "scalariform," or ladder-shaped markings.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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A slice across the stem of a tree shows many different tissues with more or less technical names, bark and cambium, medullary rays, pith, and more or less specialised tissue; air-vessels, punctate vessels, woody fibres, liber fibres, scalariform vessels, and other more or less specialised tissues.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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[FUSUS LAMELLOSUS] Shell small, fusiform; spire composed of five or six whirls, ornamented with ten strong scalariform ribs, each rib on the body is composed of three sharp crenulated plates, the one in the middle being the largest.
fbharjo commented on the word scalariform
one step at a time
February 1, 2007
yarb commented on the word scalariform
...the calamitous wrenching sound of clawbars ripping nails from boards, a scalariform scaffold to windward and a few last bookcases carried out...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008