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Offshoot vs Outcrop - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between offshoot and outcrop

is that offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree while outcrop is a piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.

As a verb outcrop is

to come out to the surface of the ground.

offshoot

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(wikipedia offshoot) (en noun)
  • That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

    • Synonyms

    * spinoff

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    outcrop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
  • A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
  • The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.

    • Verb

    (outcropp)
  • (geology, of a stratum) To come out to the surface of the ground.