Definition of "outcrops" []

• Plural form of outcrop. (noun)

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• "Area manager John Jarvis says one of the outcrops is a remnant of a major rock fall which closed the road for two weeks in September 2000."
• "Correlation between "outcrops" seemed good, except where local slumping and man-made disturbances had occurred."
• "It was not the loneliness of unfrequented nature, for there was a well-kept carriage road traversing its dreariness; and even when the hillside was clothed with scanty verdure, there were "outcrops" of smooth glistening weather-worn rocks showing like bare brown knees under the all too imperfectly kilted slopes."