Stalagmites is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STALAGMITES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• STALAGMITE, 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.
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 STALAGMITES

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How to use STALAGMITES in a sentence

• The crust which is often deposited by waters which have drained through limestone rocks, in the form of what are called stalagmites and stalactites, is carbonate of lime.
• Pendants hang from the roof, stalagmites grow from the floor like petrified stumps, and pillars and buttresses are disposed as oddly as in the architecture of a dream.
• The rock is white limestone, in which are chambers and passage-ways, stalactites and stalagmites innumerable.
• At intervals, around this swell, stalactites of various forms are suspended, and behind the sheet of stalactites first described, are numerous stalagmites, in fanciful forms.
• Here the floor bristles with stalagmites, which in several places are connected with the stalactites that depend from the ceiling.
• The caverns are delightfully cool even at midday, and the fantastic forms of some of the stalactites and stalagmites are a never-ending source of interest.
• From the roof hung fantastic stalactites and from the floor stalagmites equally fantastic shot up to meet them.
• In the Chapel huge stalactites and stalagmites meet each other to form arm-chairs, thrones, alcoves, pulpits, and a double niche conspicuous among its surroundings.

Similar words containing STALAGMITE without suffix s

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