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The park is best known for its extensive limestone cave system with stalactites, stalagmites and flowstones.—Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 21 Aug. 2025 The park is also home to the Reed Flute Cave, a cave filled with several different stalactites and stalagmites.—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025 Around the same time in a cave in Italy, someone — most likely kids or teens — hurled mud balls at the wall and tried to hit the stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling.—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2025 Under the colorful stalactites dripping from the round ceiling of Room XX, a sculpture by Spanish artist Miquel Barceló representing multiculturalism and tolerance, the room was full and attentive.—Isabelle Mayault, The Dial, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stalactite
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Etymology
New Latin stalactites, from Greek stalaktos dripping, from stalassein to let drip
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