cloaca
English Thesaurus
1. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | drain, drainpipe, waste pipe, |
| definition | : | a pipe through which liquid is carried away (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | sewage system, sewage works, sewer system, |
| definition | : | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage (noun.artifact) |
2. (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 (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, |
| definition | : | (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body (noun.body) |
| domain category | : | zoological science, zoology, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies animals (noun.cognition) |
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