OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12949

guano

/ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuita • guano • murcielaguina
Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
In the second experiment, a comparative trial was made between guano and bone-dust mixed with coal ashes.
The guano, so extensively used for manure, is full of the most beautiful infusoria, some of them splendidly iridiscent; and there is no better method of testing the genuineness of…
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