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• n  (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
• n  a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

• sewer
• sewerage

News & Articles

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• Veterinarian removes lodged fish hooks from sea turtle
  A veterinarian performed surgery on a rescued endangered green sea turtle Thursday, removing two fishing hooks from its throat and cloaca, with help of SeaWorld Orlando's Aquarium team.
  Oct. 25, 2013 - Florida Today

Quotes

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• Samuel Beckett in Independent
  ...these fluffy protestations of love have to do with the dark voyages of sex, the blindness of lust, the tormenting passions of jealousy, unrequital and betrayal, the uproar of aroused genitalia and what Samuel Beckett called "the cloaca of...