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stalagmites

stalagmites is the plural of stalagmite.

Meaning of stalagmite

Noun

stalagmite (plural stalagmites)

  1. A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lies on the ground 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 stalagmites

What is stalagmites the plural of?
Stalagmites is the plural of stalagmite.

Words near stalagmites in the dictionary

  1. stalactitical
  2. stalactitiform
  3. stalactitious
  4. stalag
  5. stalagmite
  6. stalagmites
  7. stalagmitic
  8. stalagmitical
  9. stalagmitically
  10. stalagmometer
  11. stalagmometers

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