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stalactites

stalactites is the plural of stalactite.

Meaning of stalactite

Noun

stalactite (plural stalactites)

  1. A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or another mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that hangs from the roof of a cave.
    • In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC

Questions about stalactites

What is stalactites the plural of?
Stalactites is the plural of stalactite.

Words near stalactites in the dictionary

  1. stalactical
  2. stalactiform
  3. stalactital
  4. stalactite
  5. stalactited
  6. stalactites
  7. stalactitic
  8. stalactitical
  9. stalactitiform
  10. stalactitious
  11. stalag

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