(n.) A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
(n.) In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
(2) Carlsbad isn't just big – it's also strikingly intricate, featuring thousands upon thousands of unique cave formations, including stalagmites, stalactites, cave pearls, flowstones, cave crystals and underground lakes.
(3) But, listen, as ideas go, an oath for teachers is still miles better than “ Teaching not Tinkering ”, the slogan that Hunt schemed up for a conference back in April, presumably after ditching “Lessons not Loitering” and “Staffrooms not Stalactites” after negative focus-group testing.
(4) Blood smeared the walls, and under the stage of the cultural centre, there were stalactites of coagulated blood".
(5) He created “environments” in his art room to inspire our imagination, transforming it into mystical landscapes, such as a prehistoric cave, complete with stalactites and stalagmites, stone carvings and eerie lighting.
(6) Histologically, the bone columns resembled stalagmites and stalactites, as seen by microradiography and scanning electron microscopy, that projected from each corticotomy surface toward the center.
Stalagmite
Definition:
(n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over time the paintings had built up a thin crust of calcium carbonate, formed by the same process that gives caves stalagmites.
(2) There will be no half-full glasses; no stalagmites of loose change; no convention of shoes in a huddle under the bed, on which the duvet cover will rest as smooth as an airbrushed forehead; and the sheets will always match the pillowcases.
(3) Vessel wall alterations such as stalagmite-shaped lesions, subintimal bleeding and thrombotic layers, plaques, ulcerations and postoperative intimal bridging or ablation, which could not be identified by angiography have been analysed with high resolution of details using angioscopy with a video monitoring technique.
(4) Carlsbad isn't just big – it's also strikingly intricate, featuring thousands upon thousands of unique cave formations, including stalagmites, stalactites, cave pearls, flowstones, cave crystals and underground lakes.
(5) Resulting still photographs and movies reveal fatty dots and streaks, elevated gelatinous plaques, mural thrombi, thrombosis, ulcerations and ulcers with or without organizing thrombi, boulder and stalagmite-shaped lesions, bridging and elevated plaques in the carotid artery.
(6) Materials suitable for U-series dating are found in many prehistoric archaeological sites, and include stalagmitic layers (flowstones), and spring-deposited travertines.
(7) He created “environments” in his art room to inspire our imagination, transforming it into mystical landscapes, such as a prehistoric cave, complete with stalactites and stalagmites, stone carvings and eerie lighting.
(8) Histologically, the bone columns resembled stalagmites and stalactites, as seen by microradiography and scanning electron microscopy, that projected from each corticotomy surface toward the center.