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up +‎ cropping

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upcropping (plural upcroppings)

  1. Something that crops up, or occurs unexpectedly.
    • 2004, Maureen Rank, Free to Grieve:
      You may find that upcroppings of guilt can plague you for months after a pregnancy loss.
  2. A rising outcrop.
    • Cruising World
      Healthy trees draped in Spanish moss still thrived on these odd upcroppings of rock, some of which were surrounded by water now, and white with kittiwakes []

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