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helictites

n. (plural of helictite English)

Usage examples of "helictites".

When we lowered the light it touched on more wonders: gargantuan columns, dozens of tunnel openings, flowstone curtains that glittered translucently, a shaggy forest of helictites beneath a high-up opening that obviously vented air into this area.

It was a bizarrely decorated cavern filled with grotesquely shaped helictites, a family of stalactites that ignores gravity and grows in eccentric directions.

One chamber was filled with helictites, twisted stalagtites that grew every which way in defiance of gravity.