guano

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Recent Examples of guano 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 The guano in their colonies must smell pleasant, comforting, rather than the barnyard stink that hit my own nose. Blair Braverman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024 Starting in the 1800s, however, American and British miners began flocking to Sombrero Island to take advantage of its abundant seabird guano, which can be used as fertilizer. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for guano
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Noun
  • These tasks include milking, feeding and manure management.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Only use manure from livestock and to not add pet waste or human manure to standard composting systems.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The virus is typically transmitted through rodent excrement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Bedbug excrement appears as black spots on bedding or furniture.
    Nancy LeBrun, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.
    Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
Noun
  • To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But…how exactly can the same stuff firm up your poop in one situation, and loosen it another?
    Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Rodents left about 15 pieces of poop behind reach-in cooler in the food preparation area, three pieces under the dry storage shelf in that area and five on the floor in the employee restroom.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    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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