crop out
See also: cropout
English
Verb
crop out (third-person singular simple present crops out, present participle cropping out, simple past and past participle cropped out)
- (geology, intransitive) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal.
- (intransitive) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear.
- The peculiarities of an author crop out.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crop out”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)