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guano

/gwah-noh/US // ˈgwɑ noʊ //UK // (ˈɡwɑːnəʊ) //

鸟粪,鸟巢,鸟岛,鸟笼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
    • : any similar substance, as an artificial fertilizer made from fish.

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Examples

  • By taking thousands of samples from guano, fecal swabs, and bat tissue, and searching those samples for genetic sequences similar to SARS, Shi’s team began to discover many closely related viruses.

  • In one sample of bat guano, Shi had detected the genome of a new virus, called SHC014, that was one of the two closest relatives to the original SARS virus, but her team had not been able to culture it in the lab.

  • The bat-infested copper mine in southwestern China was home to a coronavirus that left six men sick with pneumonia, with three eventually dying, after they had been tasked with shoveling bat guano out of the mine.

  • With one friend, I finally spelled it out — I wasn’t in a place to carry his guano.

  • The first was that someone became directly infected by a bat or its guano.

  • Possibly the use of guano might make wheat a paying crop, but he still doubted.

  • In the subjoined tables the composition of a great variety of different kinds of guano is given.

  • The value and use of guano are now so well understood, that it is scarcely necessary to enlarge on the mode of its application.

  • Hence an important difference between Peruvian guano and most other varieties.

  • The variety of guano to be selected must depend to a great extent on the use to which it is to be put.