Associations to the word «Cloaca»
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Adjective
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.