guyot

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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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Noun

guyot (plural guyots)

  1. (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
    • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:
      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

guyot m (plural guyots)

  1. guyot
  2. (agriculture) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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