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guyot.

A flat-topped seamount.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɡiː.əʊ/UK/ɡiˈoʊ/US
  1. A flat-topped seamount.

Where this word comes from

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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