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Guyot

Guyot

See also: guyot

French

Proper noun

Guyot

  1. A male given name, rare today.
  2. A patronymic surname.

guyot

guyot

See also: Guyot

English

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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