Word Meanings - STALACTITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.

• Producement
  Production.
• Resemblant
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.
• Watershoot
  A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• Dependency
  State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
• Founding
  of Found
• Foundation
  The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• Limestone
  A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
• Producent
  One who produces, or offers to notice.
• Resembled
  of Resemble
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• WATERSHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris)
• Dependent
  Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
• Foundationer
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• Overlying
  of Overlie
• Producer
  One who produces, brings forth, or generates.
• Resembling
  of Resemble
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)

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