guano
noun/ˈɡwɑnoʊ/
Frequency rank: #18,530 most common English word
Meaning
the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats, used as fertilizer.
Example sentence
The island rocks were covered in guano left by thousands of seabirds.
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