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Definition: Guano |
GuanoNoun1. The excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "guano" was first used: 1604. (references) |
Etymology: Guano \Gua"no\, noun; plural Guanos. [from Spanish expression guano, from Peruv. huanu dung.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Guano is an accumulation of the excreta and remains of sea birds, and is found in large quantities on certain islands and coasts; it is both nitrogenous and phosphatic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Guano is the Peruvian word huano (dung), and consists of the droppings of sea-fowls. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Guano is the name given to the collected droppings of seabirds and bats. It can be used as an effective fertilizer due to its high levels of nitrogen. Soil that is deficient in organic matter can be made much more productive by addition of this manure. Guano consists of ammonia, along with uric, phosphoric, oxalic, and carbonic acids, as well as some earth salts and impurities.
Guano is harvested on various islands in the Pacific (for example Nauru) and in other oceans (for example Juan de Nova Island). These islands have been home to mass seabird colonies for many centuries, and the guano has collected to a depth of many metres.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Guano."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Guano |
| English words defined with "guano": Guaniferous, Guanin, Guanos ♦ Murexide ♦ Struvite ♦ Xanthin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "guano": chiropterite ♦ lands valuable for minerals. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Guano" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (guano), Italian (guano), Portuguese (guano), Romanian (guano), Spanish (guano), Swedish (guano, nonsense, rubbish), Turkish (guano). |
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Screenplays | Guano bowls (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk) Hello, guano. Does poop ring a bell (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oederkerk) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mike Abbott and Skip Payne conducting range-azimuth work on "Guano Rock" Party off of FAIRWEATHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Map illustrating geographical distribution and periodical movements of menhaden Also locations of fishing grounds and oil and guano factories in the year 1878 From Report U. S. Fish Commission, Part VI, 1878. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Menhaden steamer discharging catch at oil and guano factory, Tiverton, R.I. From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Menhaden oil and guano factory at Milford, Conn. Unloading fish at the wharf Incline railway to carry fish to cooking tanks on upper floor of factory Oil tanks and storage sheds in foreground. Platform for drying scrap in rear Platform connected with factory building by elevated railway From a photograph. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Guano on Gardner Pinnacles. Credit: Small World. |  | Porcupine in the Guano Creek Wilderness Study Area. OR 1-132. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Guano Creek. Credit: John Craig. |  | Aerial picture of Guano Creek Wilderness Study Area. OR 1-132. Credit: 06/85. |
 | View of the canyon rim view on Guano Creek. OR 1-132. Credit: Unknown. |  | Aerial of Guano Creek. OR 1-132. Credit: Troutman. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There is no guano comparable in fertility to the detritus of capital |
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Health | In addition, people cannot get rabies from having contact with bat guano (feces), blood, or urine, or from touching a bat on its fur (even though bats should never be handled!). (references) | |
Other contact, such as petting a rabid animal or contact with the blood, urine or feces (e.g., guano) of a rabid animal, does not constitute an exposure and is not an indication for prophylaxis. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kiribati | In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) consented to becoming British protectorates in 1892. Banaba (Ocean Island) was annexed in 1900 after the discovery of phosphate-rich guano deposits, and the entire collection was made a British colony in 1916. The Line and Phoenix Islands were incorporated piecemeal over the next 20 years. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Once we were happy in our dank little caves, until we were able to use the wheel to see that others had caves that were bigger and weren't filled with as much bat guano as ours. |
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| "Guano" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "Guano" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.59% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "guano": guano bat. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "guano": guano-speckled. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "guano"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pleh zogjsh, pleh artificial, mbledh me pleh. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | торя с гуано, гуано. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鸟粪. (various references) | |
Danish | guano. (various references) | |
Dutch | guano. (various references) | |
Farsi | چلغوز, کودچلغوزی . (various references) | |
Finnish | fosforiguano (phosphate guano). (various references) | |
French | guano. (various references) | |
German | Guano. (various references) | |
Greek | κόπρανα πουλιών, γκουανό. (various references) | |
Hungarian | guano, guanóval megtrágyáz, guanó, madártrágya. (various references) | |
Italian | guano. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | グアニル酸 (guanylic acid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | グアノ . (various references) | |
Manx | eoylley varrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uanogay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guano, estrumar (dung, manure, muck), adubar com guano. (various references) | |
Romanian | guano. (various references) | |
Russian | гуано. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ptičije đubrivo, đubrivo (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Spanish | guano. (various references) | |
Swedish | guano (nonsense, rubbish). (various references) | |
Turkish | guano, martı gübresi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | удобрювати гуано, гуано. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | guano. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "guano": guanos, guanosine, guanosines. (additional references) | |
Words containing "guano": iguanodon, iguanodons. (additional references) | |
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"Guano" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aguado, ganow, gaon, garno, gaujo, gaun, gaunr, gauny, gino, Giono, Gnako, gnauo, Gorno, Gozani, Grunau, Grunox, guanas, guanay, guangos, guanna, guanno, guant, guany, guapo, gueno, Guezo, Gufarov, guibo, Guignon, guigo, guine, guineo, guinne, Guinon, Guinot, guiny, guito, gulan, Gunco, Gunto, Gusanos, gyaan, juranon, Kuganov, ugan, Uginon, Uginox, Vuono. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "guano" (pronounced gwÄ"nō') |
| 3 | -Ä" n ō' | altiplano, Romano. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: agon, gaun, guan. | |
-2 letters: ago, gan, gnu, goa, gun, nag, nog. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, go, na, no, nu, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: guanos, lanugo, nougat, ourang, quango. | |
+2 letters: aground, autoing, guanaco, gunboat, hangout, languor, lanugos, nougats, organum, ourangs, outgain, outgnaw, outrang, outsang, quangos. | |
+3 letters: analogue, anginous, angulose, angulous, argonaut, arousing, autogeny, bungalow, clangour, conjugal, glucagon, gourmand, guanacos, gunboats, hangouts, languors, miaouing, nonsugar, nugatory, opaquing, organums, origanum, osnaburg, outgains, outgnawn, outgnaws, outrange, poundage, quandong, quantong, rigaudon, shogunal. | |
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