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As a noun volcano

is a vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

As a proper noun guyot is

, rare today.

volcano

English

(wikipedia volcano)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

    • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from "volcano") * active volcano * complex volcano * cryovolcano * dormant volcano * extinct volcano * mud volcano * shield volcano * stratovolcano * subglacial volcano * supervolcano * * volcanic * volcanism * volcanology

    See also

    * crater * lava * lava flow * magma * vent English nouns with irregular plurals

    guyot

    English

    (wikipedia guyot)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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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