Associations to the word «Cloaca»

Wiktionary

CLOACA, noun. A sewer.
CLOACA, noun. A privy.
CLOACA, noun. (anatomy) The common duct in fish, reptiles, birds and some primitive mammals that serves as the anus as well as the genital opening.

Dictionary definition

CLOACA, noun. (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open.
CLOACA, noun. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.

Wise words

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