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Outcrop - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun 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.

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.

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.