stalactites
[ (stuh-lak-teyets) ]
Rock structures formed on the ceilings of caves as water drips down, leaving behind minerals before it falls. (Compare stalagmites.)
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How to use stalactites in a sentence
For there would be no ice here; the drippings of the snowsheds, with their accompanying stalactites and stalagmites, were absent.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperAnd in the black dome, where the lava turned to molten spray, hung countless stalactites of every color known to the artistic eye.
The Land of the Changing Sun | William N. HarbenGeorge asked, and the tears poured down over his cheeks like the water over the stalactites.
Complete Short Works | Georg EbersWhen he came to himself again, he found himself in a closed cave, amidst strange forms of grey-brown, dripping stalactites.
Complete Short Works | Georg EbersA green matter oozes from the seams in these rocks, and forms a kind of stalactites, which is apparently a carbonate of copper.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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