Definition of "scalaria" []

• Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridæ, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See ptenoglossa, and wentletrap. (noun)

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• "What follows will undeceive us: I place separately, in empty cells, a grub of Saperda scalaria and a"
• "All the specimens of this species of scalaria which fell under my observation were imperfect at the aperture."