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guano

[ UK /ɡwˈɑːnə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡwɑˌnoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer

How To Use guano In A Sentence

  • The islands are covered in birg droppings (50 metres deep in some places) called guano which is apparently a good fertilizer. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Administration of gadolinium chloride and aminoguanidine decreased the levels of nitric oxide and cyclic guanosine monophosphate, and inhibited the changes in alveolar fluid clearance.
  • The past falls open unexpectedly, and its wider accretions and effacements – the lost forest of Andredesleage, the iguanodon bones Gideon Mantell discovered in the Wealden sandstone, the Piltdown Man forgery a century later – loom over the landscape she walks through. To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review
  • At that time, bird droppings—called guano—were, alongside corpses, the most valuable fertilizer around. The Fruit Hunters
  • It had been completely coated with the guano produced by several generations of young birds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the farming community the word guano soon became a name to conjure with, and under this title many spurious and worthless manures were attempted to be palmed off on the unwary farmer. Manures and the principles of manuring
  • Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru.
  • It is a methyl guanine which fools the virus into ‘thinking’ it is a cyclic sugar guanosine it needs for growth.
  • Guano has not been extensively used in New Jersey, owing to the abundance of green sand marl, which is a very valuable fertilizer, abounding in that part of the State most in need of artificial manures. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers
  • The guano is harvested and mixed with saliva from kimodo lizards and allowed to grow to fruition within the alimentary canals of squids culled from the Ganges and is then scraped from the ink sacs and placed in vats filled with duck heads. 23 hours later a judge emerges, ready to think. Uh-Oh
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