guano
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ
Noun
[edit]guano (countable and uncountable, plural guanos or guanoes)
- Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
- 1799, Edwin Sidney, Blights of the Wheat, and Their Remedies, page 175:
- 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 this useful substance than by the microscope.
- 1844, J. Ridgway, Peruvian and Bolivian Guano, its nature, properties and results, page 22:
- In the second experiment, a comparative trial was made between guano and bone-dust mixed with coal ashes.
- 1918, Philip Lindsey Gile, The bat guanos of Porto Rico and their fertilizing value, page 60:
- Low-grade phosphatic guanos can be mixed with coffee hulls and pulp, which contain a small amount of potash.
- 1995, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls:
- The great white bat has great white guano!
- Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
- 2010, James D. Nations, The Maya Tropical Forest:
- A roof made of guano palm fronds will last up to 15 years, although Maya harvesters point out that the leaves must be cut when the moon is full; otherwise, the stems become susceptible to insect damage.
- (obsolete) A variety of seabird.
- 1703, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, volume 1:
- The Animals of these Islands, are some Hogs, Lizards, and Guanoes; and some of those Creatures mentioned in Chap. XI. which are like, but much bigger than the Guano.
- 1764, Lives of illustrious British seamen, etc, page 111:
- 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.
- 1765, John Barrow, A Collection Of Authentic, Useful, and Entertaining Voyages and Discoveries:
- 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 […]
- 1850, Annual Report of the American Institute, on the Subject of Agriculture, American Institute in the City of New York:
- The fish consumed by the guanoes, (as the fishing birds are called) are anchovies, the shoals of which are beyond all comparison.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]dung from a sea bird or from a bat
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Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guano
Declension
[edit]Inflection of guano (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | guano | guanot | |
genitive | guanon | guanojen | |
partitive | guanoa | guanoja | |
illative | guanoon | guanoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | guano | guanot | |
accusative | nom. | guano | guanot |
gen. | guanon | ||
genitive | guanon | guanojen | |
partitive | guanoa | guanoja | |
inessive | guanossa | guanoissa | |
elative | guanosta | guanoista | |
illative | guanoon | guanoihin | |
adessive | guanolla | guanoilla | |
ablative | guanolta | guanoilta | |
allative | guanolle | guanoille | |
essive | guanona | guanoina | |
translative | guanoksi | guanoiksi | |
abessive | guanotta | guanoitta | |
instructive | — | guanoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “guano”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guano m (plural guanos)
Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: guano
Further reading
[edit]- “guano”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]guano m (plural guani)
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guano n
- guano (bat or sea bird feces)
- (euphemistic) guano, crap
Declension
[edit]Declension of guano
Further reading
[edit]- guano in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- guano in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu (“dung”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]guano m (uncountable)
- (uncountable) guano (bat or sea bird feces)
- fertilizer made from such feces
References
[edit]- ^ “guano”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “guano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]guano n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | guano | guanoul |
genitive-dative | guano | guanoului |
vocative | guanoule |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Quechua wanu (“dung”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guano m (plural guanos)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “guano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Rhymes:English/ɑːnəʊ
- Rhymes:English/ɑːnəʊ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
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- English nouns with irregular plurals
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- en:Feces
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Rhymes:Finnish/uɑno
- Rhymes:Finnish/uɑno/3 syllables
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- Rhymes:Polish/anɔ
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- pl:Feces
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐnu
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃nu
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- pt:Feces
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Quechua
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ano
- Rhymes:Spanish/ano/2 syllables
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- Spanish countable nouns
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- es:Feces