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Recent Examples of guano
If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Bat droppings: Also known as guano, these small, dark pellets can be found in windowsills, porches, or the attic.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2025
Adélie penguins eat lots of fish and krill, so their guano contains nitrogen that breaks down into ammonia gas.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Bat droppings: Also known as guano, these small, dark pellets can be found in windowsills, porches, or the attic.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2025
Adélie penguins eat lots of fish and krill, so their guano contains nitrogen that breaks down into ammonia gas.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guano
Noun
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Sullivan suggests planting a cover crop around the tree to retain moisture and adding horse manure to the base as a natural fertilizer.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
10 Mar. 2026
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Consider tilling compost or composted manure into the planting bed.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the living room was a pool of blood, along with excrement.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
3 Mar. 2026
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The disguise simultaneously repels birds and other larger predators, who have no interest in eating what appears to be excrement, while luring in the spider’s next dinner.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Of course, the flue was closed, so the fire licked up the walls, left a smell like the fall, like ancient smokehouses and dung.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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These rodents left 15 pieces of dung on top of the dishwasher.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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When Fritz competes on home soil, his tennis often blooms.—
Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Ford spent decades dumping hazardous waste, including paints, solvents, heavy metals, construction rubble and contaminated soil on the river floodplain into the 1960s, none of which was addressed when soils at Highland Bridge were cleaned to residential standards.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The rat then poops the worms out, and animals such as slugs and snails eat the poop.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The ideal poop frequency might surprise you.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Moreover, at higher temperatures, pine cones stored in middens, which act as a refrigerator, tend to spoil faster.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Every man must take part in the work, and even the officers cover the middens and feed the sick.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
Noun
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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—
Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guano. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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