Cloaca

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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(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

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Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: sewer
plural: Cloacas
possessive: Cloaca's
pluralpossessive: Cloacas'

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