different between guano vs manure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??w??n??/
• Rhymes: -??n??

Noun

guano (countable and uncountable, plural guanos or guanoes)

1. Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.

   Hyponyms: (vulgar) birdshit, (vulgar) batshit

2. (obsolete) A variety of seabird.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Aguon

Finnish

Noun

guano

1. guano

Declension

Italian

Noun

guano m (plural guani)

1. guano

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from a Quechuan language wanu (“dung”).

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /??w?.no/

Noun

guano m (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) guano (bat or sea bird feces)
2. fertilizer made from such feces

Romanian

Etymology

From French guano.

Noun

guano n (uncountable)

1. guano

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanu (“dung”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??wano/, [??wa.no]
• Rhymes: -ano

Noun

guano m (plural guanos)

1. guano

Derived terms

• guanero

Descendants

• ? English: guano

Further reading

• “guano” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

French

Noun

guano m (plural guanos)

1. guano

English

Etymology

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin man? (“by hand”) + oper?r? (“to work”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??nj??/, /m??nj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??n(j)??/
• Hyphenation: ma?nure
• Hyphenation: ma?nu?re
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)

1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
   • 1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward

     Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.

2. To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

Derived terms

• manurable

Translations

See also

• to fertilize

Noun

manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)

1. Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
2. Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
   • a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):

     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.

3. (euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
   • 2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime (page 217)

     “You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
     “What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”

Derived terms

• humanure

Translations

See also

• fertilizer
• muck