Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Visible or exposed to observation: used in geology of rocks which outcrop.
- noun In petrography, a phanerocrystalline rock; a rock whose component crystals can be seen with the unaided eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Evident; visible.
- adjective (Geol.) the uppermost part of the earth's crust, consisting of deposits produced by causes in obvious operation.
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- adjective geology
evident ;visible
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek φανερός (phaneros, "visible").
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