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What is the noun for outcrop?

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outcrop
  1. A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
  2. A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
  3. The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.
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    1. “On the way we stopped to dive a rock outcrop that broke the surface a few hundred metres from shore.”
outcropping
  1. An outcrop.
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    1. “In 2002, a dozen Moroccan soldiers planted a flag on Parsley Island, a small, uninhabited outcropping off the shore near Ceuta.”
      “Behind Ariadne, putti plant a grapevine into the ground, and a vista expands to a second rocky outcropping in the sea.”
      “Cobbles of coal may be seen in the water showing the location of outcropping seams.”
outcroppings
  1. plural of outcropping
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    1. “These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests.”
      “The area between Eagle Lake and Lake of the Woods was a hostile terrain of innumerable lakes, rocky outcroppings and bottomless muskegs.”
      “The outcroppings were spaced eight feet apart and at seemingly random intervals fire was being shot upward from the floor.”
outcrops
  1. plural of outcrop
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    1. “In the hills are the nimble klipspringers which explore these hilly rocky outcrops.”
      “Getting up Mt. Gudmundson didn't look so easy as there was a very steep ice and snow bank forming a razorback up to the rocky outcrops.”
      “Sandy flats with occasional coralline outcrops dominate the bottom topography.”
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