Home › Words › S › stiriastiriastiria means an icicle-shaped concretion.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, stiria ranks #12,805 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Latin stīria (“icicle”).nounAn icicle-shaped concretion.e.g.“the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […].” — 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).