"stalactitic" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From stalactite + -ic.",
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      "form": "more stalactitic",
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      "form": "most stalactitic",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2",
          "text": "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 […].",
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        {
          "ref": "1910, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Outlines of the Earth's History",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Consisting of or resembling stalactites."
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  "etymology_text": "From stalactite + -ic.",
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          "ref": "1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2",
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        },
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