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]

cloaca accola

cloaca 1656, Mod.L., euphemism for "sewer," from L. cloaca "sewer," from cluere "to cleanse," from PIE base *klu- "to rinse, clean."

cloaca noun (plural cloacae) Etymology: Latin; akin to Greek klyzein to wash — more at clyster Date: 1599 1. sewer III 2. [New Latin, from Latin] the common chamber into which the intestinal and urogenital tracts discharge especially in monotreme mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and elasmobranch fishes; also a comparable chamber of an invertebrate 3. cesspool 2 • cloacal adjective

cloaca
n. (pl. cloacae)
1 the genital and excretory cavity at the end of the intestinal canal in birds, reptiles, etc.
2 a sewer.
Derivatives:
cloacal adj.
Etymology: L, = sewer

cloaca kləuˈeɪkə n. (pl. cloacae) 1 the genital and excretory cavity at the end of the intestinal canal in birds, reptiles, etc. 2 a sewer. øøcloacal adj. [L, = sewer]

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

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