stalagmites

1. Rock structures that grow up from the floors of caves as water drips down and deposits minerals . ( Compare stalactites .)

Notes

Stalagmites grow very slowly.

Example Sentences

For there would be no ice here; the drippings of the snowsheds, with their accompanying stalactites and stalagmites, were absent.

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From the roof hung fantastic stalactites and from the floor stalagmites equally fantastic shot up to meet them.

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It is composed of tufa, carbonate of lime, and was formed in the same manner as stalactites and stalagmites are formed.

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Just as we touched the snow a spring bubbled from the rocks at our left, spurting its water over stalagmites of ice.

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The rock is white limestone, in which are chambers and passage-ways, stalactites and stalagmites innumerable.

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