Definition of Scalariform

1. a. Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.

Definition of Scalariform

1. Adjective. Having the form of a ladder ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scalariform

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Scalariform

1. Having a ladder-like pattern. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scalariform

scalage
scalages
scalar
scalar curl
scalar electrocardiogram
scalar field
scalar function
scalar functions
scalar matrix
scalar multiplication
scalar product
scalar products
scalare
scalares
scalaria
scalariform (current term)
scalariformly
scalarization
scalarizations
scalarize
scalarized
scalarizes
scalarizing
scalaron
scalars
scalary
scalas
scalation
scalations
scalawag

Literary usage of Scalariform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States: Including a by Samuel James Record (1919)
"In the following table are listed the genera of native woods in which the vessel perforations are exclusively scalariform. In a few cases, perhaps, ..."

2. Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States: Including a by Samuel James Record (1919)
"In the following table are listed the genera of native woods in which the vessel perforations are exclusively scalariform. In a few cases, perhaps, ..."

3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"The presence or absence of scalariform perforations has mostly proved to be of ... Certain groups have only simple or only scalariform perforations in the ..."

4. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"1 shows a bundle of scalariform ducts taken from the British " bracken " (Pteris aquilina). It is enlarged 20 diameters. Fig. 2 shows a large duct enlarged ..."

5. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1850)
"scalariform Vessels. scalariform vessels differ from any of those previously described, in consisting of more or less angular tubes, which exhibit ..."

6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"should be pointed out that on the basis of the first alternative the transitions between multiseriate and scalariform pitting are to be interpreted in the ..."

7. Lectures on Histology: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England by John Quekett (1852)
"The scalariform tissue is best seen in the root of Ferns, on tranverse sections of which, the naked eye discerns rows of black dots, with intervals of a ..."

8. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"... scalariform Tissue in the Devonian Strata of the South of Ireland. By ROBERT HARKNESS, FRSS. L. & E., FGS, Professor of Geology, Queen's College, Cork. ..."

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