Definition of guano in English:

guano

nounPlural guanos ˈɡwɑːnəʊˈɡwɑnoʊ

mass noun

1The excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1856 Congress authorised the annexation of any uninhabited or unclaimed island from which guano could be recovered, and more than seventy Pacific and Caribbean islands were commandeered in the next thirty years.
- He has drawn particular attention to the amount of organic waste once generated by the seabird colonies - mainly guano, but also lost eggs, dead birds, spilled food, and molted feathers.
- The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands.
- Their droppings over the centuries have coated offshore islands with guano hundreds of feet think.
- We sat for ages, just gazing at the Bass Rock, its thick covering of guano making it glisten like a wedding cake in the sun.
- Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru.
- Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru.
- He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano.
- As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars.
- Johnston Island was annexed into the United States as a guano island under the Guano Act of 1856.
- Here the island dips into a broad, shallow depression where guano was once mined.
- Between 1850 and 1870 some 37,000 tonnes of guano were mined and trammed off Middle Island to tall sailing ships bound for developing agriculture markets in Europe.
- They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano (bird droppings).
- From there the Charles Stewart crossed the Pacific to load guano in Chile for delivery to Spain via Cape Horn.
- On islands off of the coasts of Peru and Chile, penguin eggs and guano (dry bird droppings) are collected for local use.
- They rip up bin bags, deposit vast quantities of guano on our favourite statuary, and even attack people.
- He exploited the economic benefits of guano, a bird dung collected from islands off the coast of Peru and sold to Europe for fertilizer, as well as desert deposits of sodium nitrate, which was used to make munitions and fertilizer.
- This was due to their appeal as a visual spectacle and because they became economically important as high producers of guano, droppings that the country mined and exported around the world for fertilizer.
- Between 1848-1875 20 million tons of guano was exported from Peru to North America and Europe.
- Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru.
1. 1.1 An artificial fertilizer resembling natural guano, especially one made from fish.
  类似鸟粪的人造肥料（尤指鱼肥）
  Synonyms
  fertilizer, mulch

Derivatives

guanoed

adjective

Origin

Early 17th century: from Spanish, or from Latin American Spanish huano, from Quechua huanu 'dung'.

Rhymes

Americano, Arno, boliviano, Bolzano, Carnot, chicano, Kano, llano, Locarno, Lugano, Marciano, Marrano, meccano, oregano, Pisano, poblano, Romano, siciliano, soprano, Sukarno

Definition of guano in US English:

guano

nounˈɡwɑnoʊˈɡwänō

1The excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer.
Example sentencesExamples
- This was due to their appeal as a visual spectacle and because they became economically important as high producers of guano, droppings that the country mined and exported around the world for fertilizer.
- The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands.
- Between 1848-1875 20 million tons of guano was exported from Peru to North America and Europe.
- He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano.
- We sat for ages, just gazing at the Bass Rock, its thick covering of guano making it glisten like a wedding cake in the sun.
- Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru.
- As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars.
- Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru.
- On islands off of the coasts of Peru and Chile, penguin eggs and guano (dry bird droppings) are collected for local use.
- Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru.
- Johnston Island was annexed into the United States as a guano island under the Guano Act of 1856.
- In 1856 Congress authorised the annexation of any uninhabited or unclaimed island from which guano could be recovered, and more than seventy Pacific and Caribbean islands were commandeered in the next thirty years.
- They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano (bird droppings).
- He has drawn particular attention to the amount of organic waste once generated by the seabird colonies - mainly guano, but also lost eggs, dead birds, spilled food, and molted feathers.
- From there the Charles Stewart crossed the Pacific to load guano in Chile for delivery to Spain via Cape Horn.
- Between 1850 and 1870 some 37,000 tonnes of guano were mined and trammed off Middle Island to tall sailing ships bound for developing agriculture markets in Europe.
- Here the island dips into a broad, shallow depression where guano was once mined.
- They rip up bin bags, deposit vast quantities of guano on our favourite statuary, and even attack people.
- He exploited the economic benefits of guano, a bird dung collected from islands off the coast of Peru and sold to Europe for fertilizer, as well as desert deposits of sodium nitrate, which was used to make munitions and fertilizer.
- Their droppings over the centuries have coated offshore islands with guano hundreds of feet think.
1. 1.1 An artificial fertilizer resembling natural guano, especially one made from fish.
  类似鸟粪的人造肥料（尤指鱼肥）
  Synonyms
  fertilizer, mulch

Origin

Early 17th century: from Spanish, or from Latin American Spanish huano, from Quechua huanu ‘dung’.

词汇	guano
释义	Definition of guano in English: guano nounPlural guanos ˈɡwɑːnəʊˈɡwɑnoʊ mass noun 1The excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer. Example sentencesExamples In 1856 Congress authorised the annexation of any uninhabited or unclaimed island from which guano could be recovered, and more than seventy Pacific and Caribbean islands were commandeered in the next thirty years. He has drawn particular attention to the amount of organic waste once generated by the seabird colonies - mainly guano, but also lost eggs, dead birds, spilled food, and molted feathers. The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands. Their droppings over the centuries have coated offshore islands with guano hundreds of feet think. We sat for ages, just gazing at the Bass Rock, its thick covering of guano making it glisten like a wedding cake in the sun. Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru. Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru. He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano. As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars. Johnston Island was annexed into the United States as a guano island under the Guano Act of 1856. Here the island dips into a broad, shallow depression where guano was once mined. Between 1850 and 1870 some 37,000 tonnes of guano were mined and trammed off Middle Island to tall sailing ships bound for developing agriculture markets in Europe. They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano (bird droppings). From there the Charles Stewart crossed the Pacific to load guano in Chile for delivery to Spain via Cape Horn. On islands off of the coasts of Peru and Chile, penguin eggs and guano (dry bird droppings) are collected for local use. They rip up bin bags, deposit vast quantities of guano on our favourite statuary, and even attack people. He exploited the economic benefits of guano, a bird dung collected from islands off the coast of Peru and sold to Europe for fertilizer, as well as desert deposits of sodium nitrate, which was used to make munitions and fertilizer. This was due to their appeal as a visual spectacle and because they became economically important as high producers of guano, droppings that the country mined and exported around the world for fertilizer. Between 1848-1875 20 million tons of guano was exported from Peru to North America and Europe. Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru. 1.1 An artificial fertilizer resembling natural guano, especially one made from fish. 类似鸟粪的人造肥料（尤指鱼肥） Synonyms fertilizer, mulch Derivatives guanoed adjective Origin Early 17th century: from Spanish, or from Latin American Spanish huano, from Quechua huanu 'dung'. Rhymes Americano, Arno, boliviano, Bolzano, Carnot, chicano, Kano, llano, Locarno, Lugano, Marciano, Marrano, meccano, oregano, Pisano, poblano, Romano, siciliano, soprano, Sukarno Definition of guano in US English: guano nounˈɡwɑnoʊˈɡwänō 1The excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer. Example sentencesExamples This was due to their appeal as a visual spectacle and because they became economically important as high producers of guano, droppings that the country mined and exported around the world for fertilizer. The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands. Between 1848-1875 20 million tons of guano was exported from Peru to North America and Europe. He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano. We sat for ages, just gazing at the Bass Rock, its thick covering of guano making it glisten like a wedding cake in the sun. Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru. As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars. Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru. On islands off of the coasts of Peru and Chile, penguin eggs and guano (dry bird droppings) are collected for local use. Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru. Johnston Island was annexed into the United States as a guano island under the Guano Act of 1856. In 1856 Congress authorised the annexation of any uninhabited or unclaimed island from which guano could be recovered, and more than seventy Pacific and Caribbean islands were commandeered in the next thirty years. They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano (bird droppings). He has drawn particular attention to the amount of organic waste once generated by the seabird colonies - mainly guano, but also lost eggs, dead birds, spilled food, and molted feathers. From there the Charles Stewart crossed the Pacific to load guano in Chile for delivery to Spain via Cape Horn. Between 1850 and 1870 some 37,000 tonnes of guano were mined and trammed off Middle Island to tall sailing ships bound for developing agriculture markets in Europe. Here the island dips into a broad, shallow depression where guano was once mined. They rip up bin bags, deposit vast quantities of guano on our favourite statuary, and even attack people. He exploited the economic benefits of guano, a bird dung collected from islands off the coast of Peru and sold to Europe for fertilizer, as well as desert deposits of sodium nitrate, which was used to make munitions and fertilizer. Their droppings over the centuries have coated offshore islands with guano hundreds of feet think. 1.1 An artificial fertilizer resembling natural guano, especially one made from fish. 类似鸟粪的人造肥料（尤指鱼肥） Synonyms fertilizer, mulch Origin Early 17th century: from Spanish, or from Latin American Spanish huano, from Quechua huanu ‘dung’.
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