Guano Definition

gwänō
guanos
noun
Dung of seabirds, found especially on islands off the coast of Peru: it is used as a fertilizer.
Webster's New World
Any of various similar substances, such as a fertilizer prepared from ground fish parts.
American Heritage
Any natural or artificial fertilizer resembling this, as bat dung.
Webster's New World

Origin of Guano

  • From Spanish guano, from Quechuan language huanu (“dung”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish from Quechua huanu dung

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Guano Sentence Examples

  • The guano beds are found on the barren islands of the Guano.

  • Tanning bark, coffee and guano are also recent exports.

  • The Galapagos Islands are of some commercial importance to Ecuador, on account of the guano and the orchilla moss found on them and exported to Europe.

  • From the bottom of this sea they have been raised to form the dry lands along the shores of Suffolk, whence they are now extracted as articles of commercial value, being ground to powder in the mills of Mr [afterwards Sir John] Lawes, at Deptford, to supply our farms with a valuable substitute for guano, under the accepted name of coprolite manure."

  • Nitrate of soda, Peruvian guano and superphosphate of lime in the form of bones dissolved by sulphuric acid were now added to the list of manures, and the practice of analysing soils became more general.

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Words Starting With

GGUGUA

Words Ending With

ONOANO

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