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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
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Will Ladd keep the cattle (and manure and flies) out of the South Big South until after the wedding?—
Erin Clements,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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But the dispute isn’t over, since the decision didn’t address whether large manure pits are allowed in town.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
15 May 2025
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At the same time, harvested switchgrass is being adopted as a booster in novel processes to turn chicken litter — excrement and bedding left as byproducts of poultry production — into biofuel.—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Hantavirus can be contracted from exposure to excrement from a mouse species that carries the virus.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — for the first time ever, they could be allowed to do it over American soil.—
Edward Russell,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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These houses had three types: homes with steps along the wall or that form a passageway, homes built into two levels with higher places with scorched soil for cooking areas and lower spaces for living, and flat-bottomed homes used as living spaces.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Penguin poop may be playing a key role in keeping climate change in check over Antarctica, new research published May 22 finds.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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What to do instead: Cap every poop attempt at five minutes, Dr. Kassim says.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
23 May 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
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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 11 Jun. 2025.
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