guano
noun
gua·no
ˈgwä-(ˌ)nō 
: a fertilizer containing the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats
broadly
: excrement especially of seabirds or bats
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Gross and his team discovered that the new buds blossom around the time when the fish transition from eating larval crustaceans to gobbling up their adulthood staple: bat guano.
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Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
The smell of bat droppings, or guano, wafts up from the cave when the breeze is low.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
Once used for shelter by the Indigenous Temuan, then for mining bat guano, the Batu Caves got their first Hindu temple, the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple, in 1891.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
In the United States alone, the report flags the exotic pet trade, live animal markets, bat guano harvesting, guinea pig and ferret farming, coyote and fox urine production, roadside zoos, animal fighting, fur farming, commercial farming and many other potentially dangerous settings.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
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Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
The smell of bat droppings, or guano, wafts up from the cave when the breeze is low.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
Once used for shelter by the Indigenous Temuan, then for mining bat guano, the Batu Caves got their first Hindu temple, the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple, in 1891.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
In the United States alone, the report flags the exotic pet trade, live animal markets, bat guano harvesting, guinea pig and ferret farming, coyote and fox urine production, roadside zoos, animal fighting, fur farming, commercial farming and many other potentially dangerous settings.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guano. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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guano
noun
gua·no
ˈgwän-ō
: a substance composed chiefly of the excrement of seabirds or bats and used as a fertilizer
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