outcropping

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noun effect brought about by something

noun. effect brought about by something

1805, in geology, "exposure of rocks at the surface," from out + crop (n.) in its sense of "sprout, head."

They never noticed the little heap of specimens from the outcropping.

I had one of the working eyes dig a cave in an outcropping of rock and wait for him.

Not long thereafter, he rounded an outcropping of rock and it lay before him.

But at this point, an expanse of outcropping rock baffled them completely.

But the outcropping willows at least served one useful purpose.

Hendry remarks on the outcropping of coal on the north branch.

There must be some promontory, some outcropping of grass, behind which they could hide.

He sat on one of the outcropping boulders and took off his hat.

She was indicating an outcropping of rock on a sterile hillside.

Rick cut and secured the camera to an outcropping with its safety line.