Definitions for cloaca

cloaca clo·a·ca

Spelling: [kloh-ey-kuh]
IPA: /kloʊˈeɪ kə/

Cloaca is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in cloaca (aacclo).

Definitions for cloaca

noun

  1. Zoology. the common cavity into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals open in birds, reptiles, amphibians, many fishes, and certain mammals. a similar cavity in invertebrates.
  2. a sewer, especially an ancient sewer.

Origin of cloaca

1650-60; Latin clo(u)āca, cluāca sewer, drain; probably akin to Greek klýzein to wash, wash away

Examples for cloaca

Now make a careful examination of the cloaca and its apertures, and dissect away the peritoneum hiding the kidney.

In both forms the ducts unite behind with the cloaca, and a pronephros of the Teleostean type appears to be developed.

Agrippa, who cleaned out the cloaca, navigated its whole length in a boat.

He had discarded his first instinct, which was to hide in the intricate Tetrahyde cloaca.

Cut the sponge in two longitudinally and note the simple cylindrical body-cavity, the gastric cavity or cloaca.

The cavity of the allantois, by means of its stalk passing through the umbilicus, is of course continuous with the cloaca.

In the female the process is continued till the Mllerian duct opens, close to the Wolffian duct, into the cloaca.

A perforation leading into the cloaca at the hind end of this.

In zoology the term is applied to the large chamber or 'cloaca' into which the intestine opens in the Tunicata.

This cloaca also communicates by two apertures (abdominal pores) with the body cavity.

Word Value for cloaca
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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