"guano" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-guano.wav Forms: guanos [plural], guanoes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|es|guano}} Borrowed from Spanish guano, {{bor|en|qu|wanu}} Quechua wanu Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|guanoes}} guano (countable and uncountable, plural guanos or guanoes)
  1. Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Feces Categories (lifeform): Palm trees, Seabirds Hyponyms: birdshit [vulgar], batshit [vulgar] Translations (dung from a sea bird or from a bat): гуано (guano) [neuter] (Bulgarian), птича тор (ptiča tor) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 海鳥糞 (Chinese Mandarin), 海鸟粪 (hǎiniǎofèn) (Chinese Mandarin), guáno [neuter] (Czech), guano (Dutch), guano (Esperanto), guaano (Estonian), guano (Finnish), guano [masculine] (French), Guano [masculine] (German), γκουανό (gkouanó) [neuter] (Greek), גואנו (Hebrew), drit [neuter] (Icelandic), diuáin [masculine] (Irish), guanó [masculine] (Irish), guano [masculine] (Italian), グアノ (guano) (Japanese), 海鳥糞 (kaichōfun) (alt: かいちょうふん) (Japanese), 鳥糞石 (chōfunseki) (alt: ちょうふんせき) (Japanese), 새똥 (saettong) (Korean), 해조분 (haejobun) (Korean), guano [neuter] (Polish), guano [masculine] (Portuguese), wanu (Quechua), guân [masculine] (Romagnol), гуа́но (guáno) [neuter] (Russian), guano [masculine] (Spanish), murcielaguina (note: of bats) [feminine] (Spanish), cuita (note: of birds) [feminine] (Spanish), guwano (Tagalog), guano (Turkish), schito [masculine] (Venetan), schit [masculine] (Venetan)
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  2. Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Palm trees
    Sense id: en-guano-en-noun-j6zVm8Hj Disambiguation of Palm trees: 45 53 2 Categories (other): Pages with 8 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 8 entries: 30 13 1 26 1 26 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 12 1 27 1 27 2
  3. (obsolete) A variety of seabird. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-guano-en-noun-DHV2i2FT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: guanine, guanite, guanobious, guanotrophic, guanotrophy, rock guano

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
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    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
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    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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          "ref": "1918, Philip Lindsey Gile, The bat guanos of Porto Rico and their fertilizing value, page 60:",
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          "ref": "1995, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls:",
          "text": "The great white bat has great white guano!",
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          "text": "Dampier observes, that no part of the globe is so well stocked with guanoes and land-tortoises as the Gallapagos. The guanoes are fat, tame, and of an extraordinary size.",
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        {
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          "text": "These they call Guanoes, and the dung Guano, the Indian name for excrement in general. These birds, after spending the whole day in catching their food in the sea, repair at night to rest on the islands near the coast […]",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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      "word": "guano"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Guano"
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "גואנו"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "drit"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "diuáin"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "guanó"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "グアノ"
    },
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      "alt": "かいちょうふん",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "海鳥糞"
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      "alt": "ちょうふんせき",
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chōfunseki",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "鳥糞石"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "saettong",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "새똥"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "haejobun",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "해조분"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "guano"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "guano"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "wanu"
    },
    {
      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "guân"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "гуа́но"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "guano"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "note": "of bats",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "murcielaguina"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "note": "of birds",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cuita"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
      "word": "guwano"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "sense": "dung from a sea bird or from a bat",
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      "code": "vec",
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