Guyot

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɡiːjəʊ/
• US IPA: /É¡iˈjoÊŠ/

Origin

Named for Swiss geologist Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884); coined by Harry Hammond Hess 1965.

Full definition of guyot

Noun

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

Anagrams

• gouty