stalagmites

[ (stuh-lag-meyets) ]

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

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notes for stalagmites

Stalagmites grow very slowly.

Words nearby stalagmites

stalactite, stalactites, stalactite work, stalag, stalagmite, stalagmites, stalagmometer, St. Albans, St. Albert, stale, stale bull

How to use stalagmites 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 Cooper
From the roof hung fantastic stalactites and from the floor stalagmites equally fantastic shot up to meet them.
The Young Trailers|Joseph A. Altsheler
It is composed of tufa, carbonate of lime, and was formed in the same manner as stalactites and stalagmites are formed.
Saratoga and How to See It|R. F. Dearborn
Just as we touched the snow a spring bubbled from the rocks at our left, spurting its water over stalagmites of ice.
Hours of Exercise in the Alps|John Tyndall

The rock is white limestone, in which are chambers and passage-ways, stalactites and stalagmites innumerable.
Cuba, Old and New|Albert Gardner Robinson