Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cloaca"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cloaca
n : a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn:
{sewer}, {sewerage}]
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