Meaning of stalactitic | Babel Free

Definitions

Consisting of or resembling stalactites.

Examples

“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 […].”

“In this manner, much as in the case of the growth of stalactitic matter⟳ between the blocks of stone in the roofs of a cavern, large fragments of rock, known as "horses," are often pushed out into the body of the vein.”

“From this point⟳ both the landscape and the rocky cauldron are visible, and the latter is seen to be the remainder of a stalactitic cavern, the roof of which has fallen in.”

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