Definition of Guanos

1. guano [n] - See also: guano

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guanos

guaniferous
guanin
guanine
guanine aminase
guanine cell
guanine deaminase
guanine deoxyribonucleotide
guanine ribonucleotide
guanines
guanins
guano bat
guanochlor sulfate
guanodine
guanodines
guanos (current term)
guanosine
guanosine 5'-diphosphate
guanosine 5'-monophosphate
guanosine 5'-o-(3-thiotriphosphate)
guanosine 5'-triphosphate
guanosine 5'-triphosphate 3'-diphosphate pyrophosphorylase
guanosine diphosphate
guanosine diphosphate fucose
guanosine diphosphate mannose
guanosine diphosphate sugars
guanosine monophosphate
guanosine pentaphosphate
guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase
guanosine phosphotransferase

Literary usage of Guanos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of Progress by Robert Brough Smyth (1883)
"PHOSPHATIC guanos.—The Peruvian guano owes its high per centage of nitrogenous matter to ... Such phosphatic guanos are sometimes atony, sometimes soft and ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"guanos, on the other hand, found in ! regions where rain falls freely, ... Mr Nesbit divides guanos according to their composition, into three classes : 1. ..."

3. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"Fossil guanos, consisting of fossil excrement and remains of birds and ... Some of these guanos have entered into combination with the rocks on which they ..."

4. Fertilizers: The Source, Character and Composition of Natural, Home-made and by Edward Burnett Voorhees (1898)
"NATURAL guanos A series of nitrogenous products which constitute still another separate class, consists of the various natural guanos. ..."

5. The Present Condition of Knowledge of the Geology of Texas by Robert Thomas Hill (1887)
"The class of guanos includes all those deposits which are largely, ... The soluble guanos will be treated first, and then the leached guanos will be ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Some notion of the main constituents of Peruvian and Bolivian guanos may be ... Analyses of guanos from many different countries exhibit the same feature. ..."

7. Manures and Fertilizers: A Text-book for College Students and a Work of by Homer Jay Wheeler (1913)
"These guanos have been called Peruvian guanos, or else they have received special ... Some of the principal points on the mainland from which guanos have ..."

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