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Synonyms:
Guano, droppings, feces, waste, ordure

Dung from birds, high in organic nutrients – seabird guano is noted for being high in nitrogen, and bat guano is high in phosphorus.

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
guano (noun)
a fertilizer containing the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats , broadly excrement especially of seabirds or bats
Guano (Wikipedia)

Guano (Spanish from Quechua: wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive materials.

The nest of the Peruvian booby is made of almost pure guano.
Human-made Guano Island near Walvis Bay in Namibia

The 19th-century seabird guano trade played a pivotal role in the development of modern input-intensive farming. The demand for guano spurred the human colonization of remote bird islands in many parts of the world.

Unsustainable seabird guano mining processes can result in permanent habitat destruction and the loss of millions of seabirds.

Bat guano is found in caves throughout the world. Many cave ecosystems are wholly dependent on bats to provide nutrients via their guano which supports bacteria, fungi, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The loss of bats from a cave can result in the extinction of species that rely on their guano. Unsustainable harvesting of bat guano may cause bats to abandon their roost.

Demand for guano rapidly declined after 1910 with the development of the Haber–Bosch process for extracting nitrogen from the atmosphere.

Guano (Wiktionary)

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ

Noun

guano (countable and uncountable, plural guanos or guanoes)

  1. Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
    Hyponyms: (vulgar) birdshit, (vulgar) batshit
  2. Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
  3. (obsolete) A variety of seabird
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