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CLOACA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cloacae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

Synonyms:

cloaca; sewer; sewerage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cloaca" is a kind of...):

drain; drainpipe; waste pipe (a pipe through which liquid is carried away)

Holonyms ("cloaca" is a part of...):

sewage system; sewage works; sewer system (facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cloaca" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

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