guano

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ

guano (countable and uncountable, plural guanos or guanoes)

1. Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.

   Hyponyms: (vulgar) birdshit, (vulgar) batshit

   • 1799, Edwin Sidney, Blights of the Wheat, and Their Remedies, page 175:

     The guano, so extensively used for manure, is full of the most beautiful infusoria, some of them splendidly iridiscent; and there is no better method of testing the genuineness of this useful substance than by the microscope.

   • 1844, J. Ridgway, Peruvian and Bolivian Guano, its nature, properties and results, page 22:

     In the second experiment, a comparative trial was made between guano and bone-dust mixed with coal ashes.

   • 1918, Philip Lindsey Gile, The bat guanos of Porto Rico and their fertilizing value, page 60:

     Low-grade phosphatic guanos can be mixed with coffee hulls and pulp, which contain a small amount of potash.

   • 1995, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls:

     The great white bat has great white guano!

2. Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
   • 2010, James D. Nations, The Maya Tropical Forest:

     A roof made of guano palm fronds will last up to 15 years, although Maya harvesters point out that the leaves must be cut when the moon is full; otherwise, the stems become susceptible to insect damage.

3. (obsolete) A variety of seabird.
   • 1703, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, volume 1:

     The Animals of these Islands, are some Hogs, Lizards, and Guanoes; and some of those Creatures mentioned in Chap. XI. which are like, but much bigger than the Guano.

   • 1764, Lives of illustrious British seamen, etc, page 111:

     Dampier observes, that no part of the globe is so well stocked with guanoes and land-tortoises as the Gallapagos. The guanoes are fat, tame, and of an extraordinary size.

   • 1765, John Barrow, A Collection Of Authentic, Useful, and Entertaining Voyages and Discoveries:

     These they call Guanoes, and the dung Guano, the Indian name for excrement in general. These birds, after spending the whole day in catching their food in the sea, repair at night to rest on the islands near the coast […]

   • 1850, Annual Report of the American Institute, on the Subject of Agriculture, American Institute in the City of New York:

     The fish consumed by the guanoes, (as the fishing birds are called) are anchovies, the shoals of which are beyond all comparison.

• Aguon

From Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɑno/, [ˈɡuɑ̝no̞]
• Rhymes: -uɑno
• Syllabification^(key): gu‧a‧no

guano

1. guano

• “guano”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

• IPA^(key): /ɡwa.no/

• Audio

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guano m (plural guanos)

1. guano

• → Romanian: guano

• “guano”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

guano m (plural guani)

1. guano

• aguno, agunò

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈa.nɔ/

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• Rhymes: -anɔ
• Syllabification: gu‧a‧no

guano n

1. guano (bat or sea bird feces)
2. (euphemistic) guano, crap

• guano in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• guano in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu (“dung”).[1][2]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation: gua‧no

guano m (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) guano (bat or sea bird feces)
2. fertilizer made from such feces

Borrowed from French guano.

guano n (uncountable)

1. guano

Borrowed from Quechua wanu (“dung”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwano/ [ˈɡwa.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: gua‧no

guano m (plural guanos)

1. guano

• “guano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014