dripstone: translation
Calcium carbonate deposited from water dripping from the ceiling or wall of a cave or from the overhanging edge of a rock shelter; commonly refers to the rock in stalactites, stalagmites, and other similar speleothems; in some places composed of aragonite or gypsum [10].
Synonyms: (French.) concrétions; (German.) Tropfstein, Stalagmit, Stalaktit; (Greek.) stalaktitis, stalagmitis; (Italian.) concrezione; (Russian.) kapeljnik; (Spanish.) concreción ( estalagmitjca o estalactítica); (Turkish.) damlataÕ2; (Yugoslavian.) sige, smugori.
See also flowstone.