guano

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gua⋅no

[gwah-noh]

–noun

1.	a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found esp. on islands near the Peruvian coast.

2.	any similar substance, as an artificial fertilizer made from fish.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Sp: fertilizer, dung; AmerSp huano dung < Quechua wanu dung for fuel, fertilizer

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gua·no (gwä'nō)

n. pl. gua·nos

A substance composed chiefly of the dung of sea birds or bats, accumulated along certain coastal areas or in caves and used as fertilizer.
Any of various similar substances, such as a fertilizer prepared from ground fish parts.

[Spanish, from Quechua huanu, dung.]

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Word Origin & History

guano

1604, from Sp. guano "dung," especially of sea-birds on islands off Peru, from Quechua huanu "dung." Guanine, named 1850, so called because first isolated from guano.

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