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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: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: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: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.
Romanian
Etymology
From stalactită + -ic.
Adjective
stalactitic m or n (feminine singular stalactitică, masculine plural stalactitici, feminine and neuter plural stalactitice)
- stalactitic
Declension