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snottites

snottites is the plural of snottite.

Meaning of snottite

Noun

snottite (plural snottites)

  1. A colony of single-celled extremophilic bacteria that hangs in a sheet (having the consistency of snot or nasal mucus) from the ceilings of some caves like stalactites.
    • We worked our way past the gypsum bank to a small, snottite-laden room around a corner from it. A few days earlier, Martin and his crew had filmed Diana sampling a snottite here as she discussed the strangeness of multiple life forms adapting to such an extremely acidic microenvironment. The...1999, Michael Ray Taylor, “April 18, 1998”, in Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    snoticle

Questions about snottites

What is snottites the plural of?
Snottites is the plural of snottite.

Words near snottites in the dictionary

  1. snottily
  2. snottiness
  3. snotting
  4. snotting up
  5. snottite
  6. snottites
  7. Snottsdale
  8. snotty
  9. snotty's nurse
  10. snotty-nosed
  11. snottygobble

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