cloaca — meaning in English

English meaning

• cloaca noun A single body opening, found in animals such as reptiles, birds and amphibians, used for both waste and reproduction.
• sewer noun An underground pipe or channel that carries away waste water and sewage.
• vent noun An opening that allows air, gas, or smoke to pass through or escape.

Senses

cloaca is used for these senses in English:

• cloaca (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.
• sewer A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
• vent The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.

cloaca — full definition

1. noun A single body opening, found in animals such as reptiles, birds and amphibians, used for both waste and reproduction.
2. noun An outdoor toilet.
3. noun A passage through which dead, infected tissue drains out of the body.
4. noun A structure found in a developing embryo as the reproductive and urinary systems form.

sewer — full definition

1. noun An underground pipe or channel that carries away waste water and sewage.
2. noun A person who sews.

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