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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. (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;

2. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water;
[syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cloaca \Clo"a"ca\, n.; pl. Cloac[ae]. [L.] 1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome. [1913 Webster] 2. A privy. [1913 Webster] 3. (Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cloaca n 1: (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 2: a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca]