Meaning

(sometimes figurative) A sewer..

Definitions by Sense

1. (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
2. (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.
3. An outhouse or lavatory.
4. (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
5. (embryology) Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.

Example Sentences

[…] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]

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

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.

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.

To every house […] a cloaca.

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

Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann).

Word Forms

• cloacas
• cloacae

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