cloaca
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cloaca (plural cloacas)
- (sometimes, figurative) A sewer.
- 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, No. 43, p. 598:
- The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-day Pamphlets, Ch. iv, p. 46:
- […] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]
- 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, No. 43, p. 598:
- (zoology) The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
- 1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Vol. I, p. 7:
- In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch […] and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca.
- 1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Vol. I, p. 7:
- An outhouse or lavatory.
- 1840, Frederick Marryat, Olla Podrida, Ch. xxiv:
- To every house […] a cloaca.
- 1840, Frederick Marryat, Olla Podrida, Ch. xxiv:
- (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
- 1846, Frederick Brittan translating Joseph François Malgaigne as Manual of Operative Surgery, p. 172
- Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann).
- 1846, Frederick Brittan translating Joseph François Malgaigne as Manual of Operative Surgery, p. 172
- (sewer) See sewer
- (outhouse or lavatory) See Thesaurus:bathroom
- French: cloaque
- German: Kloake
- Italian: cloaca, fogna
- Portuguese: cloaca
- Russian: клоа́ка
- Spanish: cloaca
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