guyot
UK/ˈɡiː.əʊ/US/ɡiˈoʊ/
guyot noun: a flat-topped seamount.
Noun
guyot (plural guyots)
- 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.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158
Proper noun capitalized: Guyot
Guyot (plural Guyots)
- A surname from French.
guyot meaning in Bengali
guyot in Bengali
- সমতল শীর্ষবিশিষ্ট সামুদ্রিক পাহাড়
Forms of guyot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | guyots |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Guyots |
Origin of guyot
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.
Borrowed from French Guyot.
Words that rhyme with guyot
Questions about guyot
- What does guyot mean?
- Guyot means a flat-topped seamount.
- What is guyot in Bengali?
- Guyot in Bengali is সমতল শীর্ষবিশিষ্ট সামুদ্রিক পাহাড়. See Guyot meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is guyot?
- Guyot can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce guyot?
- Guyot is pronounced /ˈɡiː.əʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of guyot?
- The plural of guyot is guyots.
Words near guyot in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: guyot (page history and authors); Guyot (page history and authors); guyot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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