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guyot

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɡiː.əʊ/(UK)
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/ˈɡiː.əʊ/(UK) · /ɡiˈoʊ/(US)

Definition of guyot

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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.”

name

  1. A surname from French.

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Etymology

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.

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