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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats