Crossword-Solution: STALAGMITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stalagmite | n. | A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “STALAGMITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Column on the cave floor formed by mineral deposits | 1 answer |
| A certain point underground? | 1 answer |
| Cave deposit | 1 answer |
| Cavern-floor buildup | 1 answer |
| Conical formation in a cavern | 1 answer |
| One growing up in a cave? | 1 answer |
| Spelunker's obstacle | 1 answer |
| Underground buildup | 1 answer |
| Underground phenomenon. | 1 answer |
| Upward rising cave deposit | 1 answer |
| CAVE formation | 2 answers |
| CAVE stone formation | 2 answers |
| "The Great Escape" setting | 2 answers |
| LIMESTONE formation | 7 answers |
| DEPOSIT UNDERGROUND CHAMBER | 10 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STALAGMITE (5)
The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick—a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.
Between the broken clouds they could see far into the recesses of heaven, the eye journeying on under a species of golden arcades, and past fiery obstructions, fancied cairns, logan-stones, stalactites and stalagmite of topaz.
These are in the water, and are often covered with a floor of stalagmite which has dripped from the roof above and hardened into stone.
All we have to do is to say--not "Open Sesame," like Ali Baba in the tale of the Forty Thieves--but some word or two which Madam Why will teach us, and forthwith a hill will open, and we shall walk in, and behold rivers and cascades underground, stalactite pillars and stalagmite statues, and all the wonders of the grottoes of Adelsberg, Antiparos, or Kentucky.
The water melts more lime than it can carry, and drops some of it again, making fresh limestone grain by grain as it drips from the roof above; and fresh limestone again where it splashes on the floor below: till if it dripped long enough, the stalactite hanging from above would meet the stalagmite rising from below, and join in one straight round white graceful shaft, which would seem (but only seem) to support the roof of the cave.
Quotes with STALAGMITE (2)
I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?""Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.
To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones, so when the supernaturally outlandish happens and a masterpiece is launched through the medium of human gesture, then all human volition is withered at the source and the heart of action stops beating…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, NY Sun, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1969–2022).