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Cloaca

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(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

polysemous

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unclassified

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unclassified

Variants

synonym
sewer
plural
Cloacas
possessive
Cloaca's
pluralpossessive
Cloacas'