guano

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for guano
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Noun
  • Taking the time to work compost, aged manure, worm castings, or other organic matter into garden beds before transplanting makes a world of difference for plants.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Apr. 2025
  • On Inauguration Day, Hogan rescinded regulations pertaining to how much animal manure can be spread onto crop fields as fertilizer — a notorious source of water pollution on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Allman and his colleagues investigated Mountaire chicken operations.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Hantavirus can be contracted from exposure to excrement from a mouse species that carries the virus.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • My father was living alone in that dark, filthy room like an old animal wallowing in its own excrement.
    Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs.
    Kevin Gepford, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Young stands remain uneven in age and composition, and soil and hydrological processes continue to reflect past disturbances.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Herbicides can harm the important beneficial microorganisms that make your soil a healthy environment for plants’ roots.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • What to do instead: Cap every poop attempt at five minutes, Dr. Kassim says.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • 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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