Stalagmite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STALAGMITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a roughly conical shaped speleothem that rises from the floor of a cave
• a mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water and often uniting with a stalactite.
• 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.
• a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a deposit of calcium carbonate like an inverted stalactite formed on the floor of a cave by the drip of calcareous water

Words related to STALAGMITE

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Words that contain STALAGMITE

stalagmites14

How to use STALAGMITE in a sentence

• The cavern continued, and the stalagmite became interesting by its fantastic shapes.
• No image that I can think of conveys the picture of this exquisite stalagmite so justly as that of a column formed of the blossoms of lilies, each cup resting within another.
• All the people spoke of the skulls as lying on the surface and not as buried in the stalagmite.
• Lighting our candles we went behind a pendant veil of thick stalagmite.
• A few great masses of stalagmite rose from the floor, and there were some columns of the same material.
• These are in the water, and are often covered with a floor of stalagmite which has dripped from the roof above and hardened into stone.
• This is a large Stalagmite column, in the centre of which is formed a capacious seat.
• A thick layer of very hard, crystalline stalagmite covers the Hall of Columns, and it was very difficult to excavate without destroying this part of the grotto.
• The deposit was from 26 to 32 feet square and from 2 inches to 5 feet deep, and rested upon a bed of broken stones above the stalagmite.
• Adjusting the torches, Stephen gave a low whistle, when from behind a mammoth stalagmite came forth a young man and a fair maiden, who took their stand in the Double Niche.

Similar words containing STALAGM without suffix ite

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