cloaca

Meaning

1. (figuratively, sometimes) A sewer.
2. The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.
3. An outhouse or lavatory.
4. A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
5. Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.

Synonyms

sewer

anus

privy

sewerage

outhouse

WC

🚾

restroom

🚻

sap

gallery

waste passage

toilet

🚽

toilette

washroom

water closet

john

lavatory

mine

Translations

Kloake

cloaque

cloaca

cloaca

cloaca

cloaca

cloaca

égout

υπόνομος

fogna

ano

du tube digestif

αποχωρητήριο

dans

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kləʊˈeɪkə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivation is uncertain.