• (America) IPA: /stəˈlæɡmaɪt/
• (British) IPA: /ˈstæləɡmaɪt/

stalagmite (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lie on the ground of a cave.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417 ↗:

     In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.

• French: stalagmite
• German: Stalagmit
• Portuguese: estalagmite
• Russian: сталагми́т
• Spanish: estalagmita