stalactitic

English

Etymology

From stalactite + -ic.

Adjective

stalactitic (comparative more stalactitic, superlative most stalactitic)

  1. Consisting of or resembling stalactites.
    • 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2:
      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 […].
    • 1910, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Outlines of the Earth's History:
      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.
    • 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:
      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.

Romanian

Etymology

From stalactită + -ic.

Adjective

stalactitic m or n (feminine singular stalactitică, masculine plural stalactitici, feminine and neuter plural stalactitice)

  1. stalactitic

Declension

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