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stalactitical

stalactitical is the alternative form of stalactitic.

Meaning of stalactitic

Adjective

stalactitic (comparative more stalactitic, superlative most stalactitic)

  1. Consisting of or resembling stalactites.
    • Dr. MacCulloch describes calcareous concretions, found in banks of sand in Perthshire, which present a great variety of stalactitic forms, generally more or less complicated, and often exceedingly intricate and strange […].1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2

Forms of stalactitical

comparativemore stalactitical
superlativemost stalactitical

Origin of stalactitical

From stalactite + -ical.

Questions about stalactitical

What is stalactitical the alternative form of?
Stalactitical is the alternative form of stalactitic.

Words near stalactitical in the dictionary

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

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