guano

Plural: guanoes, guanos

Noun

• Accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats, used as fertilizer.
• the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer
• Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
• Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
• A variety of seabird.

Verb

• To fertilize (land) with guano.

Examples

• Despite its unappealing meaning, GUANO can be a surprisingly high-scoring word on the board.