guano

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Recent Examples of guano Finally, liquid bat guano and liquid earthworm castings (guano and castings are euphemisms for excrement) are also utilized for foliar fertilization. Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025 Worse, the Chilean fields were due to be exhausted within a few decades, as had already happened to the guano deposits on nearby islands. Big Think, 5 Feb. 2025 The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation. Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025 The poop, or guano, of infected birds is teeming with viruses. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for guano
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Noun
  • Will Ladd keep the cattle (and manure and flies) out of the South Big South until after the wedding?
    Erin Clements, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • But the dispute isn’t over, since the decision didn’t address whether large manure pits are allowed in town.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, harvested switchgrass is being adopted as a booster in novel processes to turn chicken litter — excrement and bedding left as byproducts of poultry production — into biofuel.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Hantavirus can be contracted from exposure to excrement from a mouse species that carries the virus.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Ndebele art involves geometric motifs painted on the walls of houses using dung, limestone, red clays, soot, ash, and other natural pigments.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than replicating French haute cuisine, chefs like Claus Meyer and René Redzepi (of Noma fame) called for a culinary identity rooted in Nordic soil, climate and heritage.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • For many fans from Iran, this tournament could be a rare chance to watch their team play on American soil—an opportunity made even more meaningful by decades of political estrangement.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • One researcher said his studies identified about 100,000 fecal (poop) bacteria per cup of bathwater.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 2 June 2025
  • Winning a golf tournament for $4 million and your wife handing you a baby with a poop stain square in the middle of his back is peak dad life.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • Its most abiding image involved a young woman lying on a dunghill and working herself to orgasm with the aid of a disembodied hand.
    The Economist, The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018

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