Noun:

கசிதுளிவீழ்,

stalactites's Usage Examples:

in diameter, standing erect, but pierced by a tubular passage from top to bottom; the Leaning Column nearly as large, undermined and tilting like the campanile of Pisa; the Organ, a cluster of stalactites in the chamber known as the Cathedral; besides a vast bed of di.

Acid water, which seeps through the limestone layers, dissolves the calcium, which is forming the stalactites.

On the west side of the Bard is the Orkney Man's Cave - a great cavern with fine stalactites and a remarkable echo.

"Hence some stalactites have their tips under water long enough to allow tassels of crystals to grow on them, which, in a drier season, are again coated over with stalactitic matter; and thus singular distortions are occasioned.

The whole cut impressed me as if it were a cave with its stalactites laid open to the light.

Several stalactites in the Giant Hall exceed 50 ft.

The dissipation of the dissolved carbon dioxide results in the formation of "fur" in kettles or boilers, and if the solution is falling, as from the roof of a cave, in the formation of stalactites and stalagmites.

At some period, long subsequent to its original excavation, and after many large stalactites had grown, it was completely filled with glacial mud charged with acid, whereby the dripstone was eroded into singularly grotesque shapes.

The principal parts are the Paradies with the finest stalactites, the Astronomical Tower and the Beinhaus.

In the Zwarteberg of the central chain are the Cango Caves, a remarkable series of caverns containing many thousand of stalactites and stalagmites.

The cave came alive with unfamiliar noises as stalactites dripped and splattered on the sand and rock.

Ornaments fashioned out of spar and stalactites have also a considerable sale.

The Gothic Avenue contains numerous large stalactites and stalagmites, and an interesting place called the Chapel, and ends in a double dome and cascade.

Synonyms:

cave, dripstone, cylinder,

Antonyms:

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