stalactitic
English
Etymology
From stalactite + -ic.
Adjective
stalactitic (comparative more stalactitic, superlative most stalactitic)
- Consisting of or resembling stalactites.
- 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2][1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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[3]:
- 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.