flowstone
noun
flowstone is a noun meaning “A secondary layered mineral deposit of calcite or other mineral, formed by water flowing down the walls and along the floor of a cave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-W-S-T-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flowstone is flowstones.
What does flowstone mean?
noun
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A secondary layered mineral deposit of calcite or other mineral, formed by water flowing down the walls and along the floor of a cave.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flowstone
- flowstones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flowstone?
Flowstone appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flowstone come from?
From flow + stone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).