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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The spores can be found in soil, dust and animal manure.
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The car ended up high-centered on the edge of the manure pile.
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Nutrient inputs include decaying leaf litter and bird excrement that are deposited in the pool directly, along with fertilizer runoff and sewage, which enters the Potomac River and the Tidal Basin.
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Approximately 3 roach excrement droppings inside of soap dispenser.
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When not elbow-deep in dino dung or outrunning raptors, Laura Dern's heartfelt performance in Jurassic Park shows why women really deserve to inherit the Earth — and all of the acting awards.
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The team ended up with a jar of elephant dung scent.
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While the heroine in this novel is fictional, readers will be drawn to this mystery set during WWII about codebreaking, and a Nazi threat on American soil.
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Since the founding of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, no Olympic event has ever been held on African soil.
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Another poop nugget was left next to toilet bowl cleaner in the bathroom.
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Most companies look for creativity only once the poop hits the fan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guano. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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