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noun
A colony of single-celled extremophilic bacteria that hangs in a sheet (having the consistency of snot or nasal mucus) from the ceilings of some caves like stalactites.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: bacteriology, biology, microbiology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: snoticle
Antonyms: none provided
History
Blend of snot (“mucus, especially nasal mucus”) + stalactite, possibly coined by James A. Pisarowicz in unpublished field notes of an exploration of the Villa Luz Cave in Tabasco, Mexico, in 1988.
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