'Cloaca' definitions:

Definition of 'cloaca'

From: WordNet
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
noun
A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca]

Definition of 'Cloaca'

From: GCIDE
  • Cloaca \Clo"a"ca\, n.; pl. Cloac[ae]. [L.]
  • 1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A privy. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes. [1913 Webster]

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