CLOACAE

CLOACA

sewer, sewerage, cloaca

(noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

cloaca

(noun) (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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

cloacae

plural of cloaca

Source: Wiktionary

CLOACA

Clo"a"ca, n.; pl. Cloacæ. Etym: [L.]

1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

2. A privy.

3. (Anat.)

Definition: The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition