Cloaca

Quick meaning: Cloaca is a noun meaning (sometimes figurative) A sewer.

Meaning

(sometimes figurative) A sewer.

More Meanings

1. An outhouse or lavatory.
2. (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
3. (embryology) Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.
4. (anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.

Example Sentences

To every house […] a cloaca.

[…] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]

The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae.

Only think of that cloaca being supplied daily with such dainty bibliographical treasures!

Word Forms

• cloacas
• cloacae

Synonyms for cloaca

Depending on context, synonyms include sewer, vent, bathroom, sewerage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sewerage, sewer, entodermal, maxima, cave, calingula.

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