snottite

Etymology


, possibly in unpublished field notes of an exploration of the  in Tabasco, Mexico, in 1988.

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Catalan: snottite
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 洞穴涕石
 * Dutch: snottiet
 * Finnish: snottiitti
 * French: snottite
 * German: Snottit
 * Indonesian: snottit
 * Macedonian: