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outbulk

verb

Etymology

From out- + bulk.

  1. derived from bouk — “belly, trunk”
  2. derived from *bʰelǵ-✻ — “beam, pile, prop”
  3. derived from *bulkô✻ — “beam, pile, heap”
  4. derived from búlki — “the freight or the cargo of a ship”
  5. inherited from bulk
  6. prefixed as outbulk — “out + bulk”

Definitions

  1. To exceed in bulk.

    • In places the intrusions, indeed, outbulk the rocks among which they have been thrust.
    • Silicic rocks outbulk mafic ones at exposed levels in the plutonic complexes, but relative proportions vary widely among them. Silicic and mafic liquids were present simultaneously in each complex, and intermediate rocks are uncommon.

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