guano bat — noun the common freetail bat of southern United States having short velvety fur; migrates southward for winter • Syn: ↑Mexican freetail bat, ↑Tadarida brasiliensis • Hypernyms: ↑freetail, ↑free tailed bat, ↑freetailed bat … Useful english dictionary
Guano — (from the Quechua wanu , via Spanish) is the feces of seabirds, bats, and seals. [cite web|url=http://www.wisegeek.com/what is guano.htm|title=What is Guano?|accessdate=2006 11 09] Guano manure is an effective fertilizer and gunpowder ingredient… … Wikipedia
bat — bat1 /bat/, n., v., batted, batting. n. 1. Sports. a. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. b. a racket, esp. one used in badminton or table tennis. c. a whip used by a jockey. d. the act of using a… … Universalium
Guano (disambiguation) — Guano is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats, often mined as a source of phosphorus.Guano may also refer to * Guano or Guano palm, any one of several species of palm trees in the genera Coccothrinax, Copernicia and Sabal, or the leaves… … Wikipedia
guano — [gwä′nō] n. pl. guanos [Sp < Quechua huanu, dung] 1. manure of seabirds, found especially on islands off the coast of Peru 2. any natural or artificial fertilizer resembling this, as bat manure … English World dictionary
Bat Cave mine — The Bat Cave guano mine, located in the western Grand Canyon of Arizona at river mile 266, 800 ft. above Lake Mead, was an unusual, expensive and noteworthy mining operation. The cave was apparently discovered in the 1930s by a passing boater.… … Wikipedia
Bat — For other uses, see Bat (disambiguation). Bats Temporal range: 52–0 Ma … Wikipedia
guano — /gwah noh/, n. 1. a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found esp. on islands near the Peruvian coast. 2. any similar substance, as an artificial fertilizer made from fish. [1595 1605; < Sp: fertilizer, dung; AmerSp… … Universalium
guano — An accumulated deposit of animal excrement. In caves it is most commonly associated with bat colonies, but cave dwelling birds such as swifts may also contribute. Guano is only abundant in tropical regions and may be dry and powdery, or a foul … Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology
bat guano — /ˈbæt gwanoʊ/ (say bat gwahnoh) noun → guano (def. 2) …