cloaca
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Is cloaca a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (sometimes figurative) A sewer.Examples: "The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae."; "[…] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]"; "After working an hour, I began to speculate on the distance one had to go before the cloaca was reached the chances we had of missing it altogether."Synonyms: sewerfigurativelysometimes
2. (anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.Examples: "In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch […] and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca."
3. (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.Examples: "Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann)."Synonyms: vent
4. (embryology) Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.
Definition source: Wiktionary