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cloaca
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer , sewerage ] [also: cloacae (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In animal anatomy, a cloaca (plural cloacae ) is the posterior orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive , reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of certain animals, opening at the vent. All amphibians , birds , reptiles , and a few ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A sewer. 2 A privy. 3 (context anatomy English) The common duct in fish, reptiles, birds and some primitive mammals that serves as the anus as well as the genital opening.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, euphemism for "underground sewer," from Latin cloaca "public sewer, drain," from cluere "to cleanse," from PIE root *kleue- "to wash, clean" (cognates: Greek klyzein "to dash over, wash off, rinse out," klysma "liquid used in a washing;" Lithuanian ...
Usage examples of cloaca.
Snow had never been near it before, the team talked about the Cloaca often enough back at the base.
Of all the foul places to dive in New York City, the Cloaca was the worst: worse than the Arthur Kill, Hell Gate, even the Gowanus Canal.
They moved out of the Cloaca, through the Spuyten Dyvil, and into the fresh air of the Hudson.
Miss Kistemaeckers noticed that the cloaca of all three animals was very sore, and she writes that fertilisation of the ova of Andrias Scheuchzeri seems to take place not by copulation, nor even spawning, but by what she called the sexual milieu.
If that does not happen to please you, you are welcome to stick your head even farther up your cloaca than it is already.
Reign of Tarquinius Priscus 16 His early history 16 His removal to Rome 16 Becomes king 16 His wars 16 The Cloacae 16 Circus Maximus 17 Increase of the Senate 17 Increase of the Equites 17 Attus Navius 17 Increase of the Vestal Virgins 17 Early history of Servius Tullius 17 Death of Tarquinius Priscus 18 578-534.
The great cloacae, or sewers, by which he drained the lower parts of the city, still remain, after so many ages, with not a stone displaced.
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.
Oh, holiness quintessentialised, Holiness whole, the wholesome wholemeal of, Holiness as meat and drink and air, in the Chaste thrusts of marital love holiness, and Sanctitas sanctitas even snaking up from Cloacae and sewers, sanctitas the effluvium From His Holiness's arsehole.
El muchachuelo de la cloaca y del cascotazo ascendió a hombre de frontera.
The black yeast of demon vitality cooks unsleeping in its planetary cloaca.
Too bad, he thought, the messenger had to throw it into the Humboldt Kill, aka Cloaca Maxima, named after the great central sewer of ancient Rome.
State-owned slaves periodically clean the streets and the Cloaca Maxima is still in use in Rome even in our time.
He even hired a boat and took her into the immense Cloaca Maxima which drained the city's swampy valleys.
The Romans, from the time of the republic, knew everything about their Cloaca Maxima, yet fifteen hundred years later, in Paris, people were ignorant of what went on beneath their feet.