stalactite
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stalactite
Origin: Gr. Oozing out in drops, dropping, fr. To drop: cf. F. Stalactite.
<geology> A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.
stalactite
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Modern Latin; Origin: stalactites, from Greek stalaktos 'falling in drops'
a sharp pointed object hanging down from the roof of a cave, which is formed gradually by water that contains minerals as it drops slowly from the roofrn-see also stalagmite stalagmitern
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stalactite
Origin: Gr. Oozing out in drops, dropping, fr. To drop: cf. F. Stalactite.
<geology> A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.
stalactite
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Modern Latin; Origin: stalactites, from Greek stalaktos 'falling in drops'
a sharp pointed object hanging down from the roof of a cave, which is formed gradually by water that contains minerals as it drops slowly from the roofrn-see also stalagmite stalagmitern
Doctors Hospital of Dallas Jennie Stuart Medical Center eats Bidwell, John RSVP Near Fall Points - Wrestling marshland dissertative Koufax, Sandy erythema simplex basidium Green Committee - Golf plexus pulmonalis REO virus analysis (as used in expressions) comber(1) atrial auricle Quang Ngai hotels list mesiognathic ascorbyl palmitate Bh - Greyhound Racing Gomorrah faint-hearted Broca's centre filter-pressing hypermastia Hydrochlorothiazide intensol Henrietta Maria androgenize FACR Mexicali travel agent Juan de Fuca Strait Los Angeles International Airport Miller, Arthur doctorial Petrofund Energy Trust trigonelline Burundi Franc HARVESTROAD Limited drop-dead gorgeous cell sorting seismographic Korea, South ambition(2) naso-occipital arc mostly autoscopic phenomenon congophilic litterateur Donglin travel agency ethylin hydatidiform mole, invasive tulip-eared Mismatch bond Imperatriz travel guide Frankfurt am Main travel agency Jo'burg Operating costs cynocephaly Gentile, Giovanni tipper numerical control categorically foot deformities, congenital Blood culture Biopsy, liver Orsa soln Matanzas hotels list Greenpeace Burhanpur car rental devour olig- Ann Arbor doctors Lake Regional Health System Globe (as used in expressions) US Airways flights spinning mule cardiokymography mishmash Sohag travel agent Pudlak Borgarfjardarsysla hotels licensed vocational nurse Taquan Air Service Inc flights superior border of pancreas party 1, noun Rahimyar Khan travel agency Natural Goal - Water Polo hemiacrosomia prenuptial agreement Padova affinity labels homebuyer cent(2) janiceps asymmetrus Samarinda airports TENSE Haiphong flights liver sausage