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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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These tasks include milking, feeding and manure management.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Only use manure from livestock and to not add pet waste or human manure to standard composting systems.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Researchers fed the fish, and their excrement provided nutrients to the plants.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.—
Ted Nordhaus,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Aug. 2016
Noun
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To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And no one can assure that their poop is safe to eat.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Another included several bags for picking up the poop.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.—
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 1 May. 2025.
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