outcropping

noun

out·​crop·​ping ˈau̇t-ˌkrä-piŋ How to pronounce outcropping (audio)

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And the rock art is just part of the attraction at Gold Butte, as the landscape is an otherworldly, Mars-like collection of red and tan sandstone outcroppings rising from the desert floor. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025 The need for troops was unfathomable to a cluster of humanitarian volunteers from southern Arizona at a tiny aid camp east of Sasabe, Ariz., where miles of border wall abruptly come to an end at an outcropping in the Sonoran Desert. Jack Healy, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025 The terrain — thick jack pines and swamp that gave way to small bushes, rock outcroppings, and thick caribou moss — made for quite a climb. Jim Tappan, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025 Then, pull over for 50-foot-high fossil rock outcroppings and limestone spires on the Kansas prairie at Monument Rocks, which is on private land that’s open to the public south of Oakley, Kansas, right off I-70. Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outcropping

Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of outcropping was in 1836

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“Outcropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcropping. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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outcropping

noun
out·​crop·​ping ˈȧut-ˌkrä-piŋ How to pronounce outcropping (audio)

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