stalagmite

From New Latin stalagmitēs, from Ancient Greek στάλαγμα (stálagma, “drop”) or σταλαγμός (stalagmós, “dripping”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /stəˈlæɡˌmaɪt/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstæl.əɡˌmaɪt/

stalagmite (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lies on the ground of a cave.

   Coordinate term: stalactite

   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:

     In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.

   • 1981, Kalu Uka, A Consummation of Fire: A Novel, page 9:

     Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.

• stalagmitic
• stalagmitical
• stalagmitically

• speleothem
• calthemite

Borrowed from New Latin stalagmites, from Ancient Greek σταλαγμός (stalagmós).

• IPA^(key): /sta.laɡ.mit/

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stalagmite f (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) stalagmite

   Antonym: stalactite

• “stalagmite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /sta.laɡˈmi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: sta‧lag‧mì‧te

stalagmite f (plural stalagmiti)

1. (geology) stalagmite