Guano vs Manure - What's the difference?
guano | manure |
Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
* 1982:' "grazes on bat excrement, delicately referred to as ‘bat '''guano ’ in this week's Nature." ''—physics!tpkq, net.games.rogue
* 1995:' "The great white bat has great white '''guano !" ''—
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
* Surrey
* John Donne
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
* Shakespeare
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
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Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not.
* Sir Humphry Davy
Manure is a synonym of guano.
As nouns the difference between guano and manure
is that guano is dung from a sea bird or from a bat while manure is animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.As a verb manure is
to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.guano
English
(wikipedia guano)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* birdshit * batshitDerived terms
* guanitemanure
English
Verb
(manur)- to whom we gave the strand for to manure
- Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
- The farmer manured his fallow field.
- The blood of English shall manure the ground.
Derived terms
* manurableSee also
* to fertilizeNoun
- Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure ; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.