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# outcrop

«outcrop» in Mova's school dictionary: **A part of rock that sticks out of the ground or a hillside** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an outcrop, outcrops)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A part of rock that sticks out of the ground or a hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#m1)

2) A small group of something appearing in an unexpected place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A geography and science word: geologists study rock outcrops to see layers and fossils. On walks, outcrops are good places to look at kinds of rock (granite, limestone). In a city, an «outcrop» of shops can mean a small cluster.

### examples

- We sat on a rocky outcrop to eat our lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#x1)
- The outcrop of limestone was full of fossils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#x2)
- Climbers practised on the granite outcrop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#x3)
- From the outcrop we could see the whole valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#x4)
- Be careful near outcrops; the edges can be crumbly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#x5)
- The Australian outback has red rock outcrops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word. Use «an». Related: «crop out» (verb, rarer). Safety: keep away from the edges of outcrops and cliffs.

### In the corpora

- [Serengeti lions rest on rocky outcrops called kopjes, which give them shade, a lookout and safe dens for cubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outcrop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcrop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.