Other forms: outcrops
An outcrop is rock that breaks through the surface of the ground. A limestone outcrop, climb the outcrop, an outcrop on the hillside.
It is where geology can actually be read, since everywhere else the rock is under soil, which is why a map of them is the first thing a geologist wants. Climbers use the word for any small crag.
1nounoutcropRock that breaks through the surface of the ground.
“We climbed onto a rocky outcrop to get a better view of the valley.”
outcrop is a rock.
Proto-Indo-European
*grewb- — to warp, bend, crawl
Proto-Germanic
*kruppaz — body, trunk, crop
Proto-West Germanic
*kropp
Old English
cropp
Middle English
crop
English
crop
English, today
outcrop
Built from
From out- + crop. crop comes from Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic kropp, from Proto-Germanic kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). a doublet of group. 2 Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish -, Norwegian -, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese - and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. a doublet of group and croup.
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