Cloaca

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1. Noun

A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

2. Noun

A privy.

3. Noun

The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

4. Noun

(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
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