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gua•nay
(gwə nī′; Sp. gwä nī′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nay•es (-nī′ās; Sp. -nä′yes),USA pronunciation -nays.
- Birdsa cormorant, Phalacrocorax bougainvillii, of islands off the coasts of Peru and Chile, a chief source of guano. Also called guanay′ cor′morant.
- American Spanish guanae, apparently as back formation from colonial Spanish huanaes, as plural of huano guano, taken as the name of the bird that produced it
- 1855–60