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The Guano Point viewpoint is named for miners who tried to remove nitrogen-rich bat guano from a nearby cave discovered in 1930.
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 9 Nov. 2025
He was jolted out of his reverie by a whiff of guano in the breeze.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 9 Nov. 2025
He was jolted out of his reverie by a whiff of guano in the breeze.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guano
Noun
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At the same time, rice farmers are using more fertilizers and organic amendments, such as straw and manure, planting more productive rice varieties and growing the plants closer together.—
Hanqin Tian,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
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To reduce the amount of digging, one option is to apply a few inches of compost or aged manure over your in-ground garden, then work it into the top few inches of the soil.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 May 2026
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If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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Hantavirus is contracted through inhalation or contact with rodent excrement or saliva.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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To help the herd accept the calf after his time away, rescuers coated him in fresh elephant dung to mask any unfamiliar scents.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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Release of dung increases soil organic carbon and helps build soil structure that improves water filtration and soil aeration.—
Paige Stein,
Hartford Courant,
4 May 2026
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Insufficient Watering Tomatoes require constant moisture rather than fluctuating periods of wet and dry soil.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
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The scientific one — understanding how nitrogenase, tucked inside an ordinary soil bacterium, accomplishes what the Haber-Bosch process requires an industrial furnace to do — remained open.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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Each spring since then, the National Park Service scrubs out a year’s worth of goose poop and other debris to keep the pool clean and the algae away.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Robbie spoke with the naturalist, who pulled bottles of krill and whale poop from his pockets.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
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But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
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Now, researchers plan to extend their investigations to nearby early settlement sites to determine if Culasawani is a midden or muddle.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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When Job, who is on a dunghill, oozing pus, after the death of his entire family, accuses God of needless cruelty, God appears in the form of a whirlwind, chastising Job for expecting something as measly as fairness from the Creator of the Universe.—
Audrey Wollen,
New Yorker,
6 May 2026
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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—
Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guano. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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