Meaning

5 senses

  1. (figuratively, sometimes)A sewer.

    […] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]

  2. The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.

    Kloake

    клоа́каkloáka

    (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open

  3. An outhouse or lavatory.

  4. A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.

  5. Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Dinosaurs had cloacas.

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  2. Birds have cloaca.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
anatomical feature of birds, reptiles, etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
anatomical feature of birds, reptiles, etc.:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivati

Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivation is uncertain.

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Forms

plural: cloacas / cloacae
Singularcloaca
Pluralcloacas / cloacae

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
outhouse or lavatory:bathroomA1
sewer:see: sewer
duct:see: vent
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Derivedcloacalcloacalinguscloacinalcloacitispersistent cloaca

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
clippingcliqueclitoriscloakC1cloakroomclobber
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