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Guyot

//ɡiˈoʊ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French.
Noun
  1. 1
    A flat-topped seamount.

    "It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot."

  2. 2
    a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Guyot.

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