Definitions
a small cave (usually with attractive features)
Word origin
From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt.
Used in a sentence
“An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.”
“By the mid-1940s members of local grottos (regional clubs of cavers within the National Speleological Society) were exploring Porcupine Cave (Bloch, 1946).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Small picturesque cave”6 letters
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