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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guano
Noun
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Use homemade or local compost, manures or commercial garden soil to improve sandy soils. 29.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
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The region’s dairy farms offer loamy soil, untilled and laden with manure: an annelid’s arcadia.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Noun
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As The Athletic wanders around the Queen Elizabeth II Stand, the glances made are like towards excrement on a shoe.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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In fact, some seventeenth-century writers even used the word excrement to describe human hair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
Noun
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The inspector counted over 30 little hunks of rodent dung behind the chest freezers, and another 15 under dry storage shelves.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2025
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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
Noun
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Growing requirements will vary by species, but most appreciate partial to full shade and rich, moist soil. Bring one of the easiest house plants around to the outdoors.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
29 June 2025
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Potted plants will quickly use up all the water that can be stored in the small amount of soil a pot can hold.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
Noun
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No surprise, then, that after Surfside asked for money, the poop left the building and the B.S. walked right in — someone called Tallahassee.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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This results in small, hard, usually black or brownish pellets of poop.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2025
Noun
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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
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The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 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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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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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guano. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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