icicular

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English

Etymology

From icicle +‎ -ar.

Adjective

icicular (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, bearing, or resembling icicles.
    • 1826, John Miers, Travels in Chile and La Plata, volume 1, page 309:
      hese curious masses of rock [] beset with a row of icicular concretions formed by the dripping of the mineral water that flows over these masses, in a very thinly expanded sheet.