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Stalactitical   Listen
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Stalactitical, Stalactitic  adj.  (Geol.) Of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... and roots of trees, together with many land-shells, became enclosed. The whole then became consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter; and the cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood were thus also filled up with a hard pseudo-stalactitical stone. The weather is now wearing away the softer parts, and in consequence the hard casts of the roots and branches of the trees project above the surface, and, in a singularly deceptive manner, resemble the ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin



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