"Wentletrap" is a word in ENGLISH
Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white,
marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa,
which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See
Scalaria.
A man without life purpose is not in any way different from a wondering goat.
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A student called up his Mom one evening from his college and asked her for some money, because he was broke.His Mother said, "Sure, sweetie. I will send you some money. You also left your economics book here when you visited two weeks ago. Do you want me to send that up too?""Uhh, oh yeah, O.K." responded the kid.So his Mom wrapped the book along with the checks up in a package, kissed Dad goodbye, and went to the post office to mail the money and the book. When she gets back, Dad asked, "Well how much did you give the boy this time?""Oh, I wrote two checks, one for $20, and the other for $1,000 out to him.""That's $1020!!!" yelled Dad, "Are you going crazy???""Don't worry hon," Mom said, kissed Dad on the on top of his bald head, "I taped the $20 check to the cover of his book, but I put the $1,000 one somewhere between the pages in chapter 15!"
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, …
Read the complete definitionLike or pertaining to a scalaria.
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