guano
IPA: gwˈɑnoʊ
noun
- Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
- Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
- (obsolete) A variety of seabird.
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Examples of "guano" in Sentences
- At that time, bird droppings—called guano—were, alongside corpses, the most valuable fertilizer around.
- The islands are covered in birg droppings (50 metres deep in some places) called guano which is apparently a good fertilizer.
- Great, too, are the resources of such stretches of land as the Atacama desert or the islands off the Pacific coast of South America whence guano is shipped to all quarters of the globe.
- Among the farming community the word guano soon became a name to conjure with, and under this title many spurious and worthless manures were attempted to be palmed off on the unwary farmer.
- They carried coal from England to the East, guano from the Chincha Islands to England and France, petroleum from the Gulf Ports to Europe and South America and wool from Australia to England.
- Fritz Haber was a chemist who realized that there was soon going to be a crisis: the urgent need to find an artificial replacement for bird-droppings, aka guano fertilizer, on which Euro-food supplies depended.
- The guano is harvested and mixed with saliva from kimodo lizards and allowed to grow to fruition within the alimentary canals of squids culled from the Ganges and is then scraped from the ink sacs and placed in vats filled with duck heads. 23 hours later a judge emerges, ready to think.
- The new manures which have lately been so fashionable are of both kinds: guano is the dung of sea birds, which has been accumulating for ages on islands off the western coasts of Africa and South America; and nitrate of soda and Humphrey's compound are mineral substances which are very efficacious in promoting vegetation.
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