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What is the noun for cloaca?

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cloaca
  1. A sewer (also in figurative senses).
  2. (zoology) The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
  3. An outhouse or lavatory.
  4. (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “We sexed each snake by probing its cloaca to detect the presence of hemipenes.”
      “Unlike we humans, the chicken has a single sexual and excretory orifice, the cloaca.”
      “Instead, males deposit spermatophores on the substrate and females pick up these spermatophores with their cloaca later.”
cloacae
  1. plural of cloaca
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To determine the presence of yeast in cloacae, swabs were streaked onto Sabouraud's dextrose agar and incubated for 14 days.”
      “He pointed to a hole in the ground, which resembled those that led down to the cloacae.”
      “The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae.”
cloacas
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