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icicular en · ADJ

Etymology

From icicle + -ar.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Of, pertaining to, bearing, or resembling icicles.
    • [T]hese curious masses of rock […] beset with a row of icicular concretions formed by the dripping of the mineral water that flows over these masses, in a very thinly expanded sheet. 1826, John Miers, Travels in Chile and La Plata, volume 1, page 309: