Guano

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  • noun. A substance composed chiefly of the dung of seabirds or bats, accumulated along certain coastal areas or in caves and used as fertilizer.
  • noun. Any of various similar substances, such as a fertilizer prepared from ground fish parts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fertilizing excrement found on many small islands in the Southern Ocean and on the western coast of Africa, but chiefly on islands lying near the Peruvian coast.
  • noun. A fertilizer made from fishes. See fish-manure.
  • To manure with guano.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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