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Cloaca   Listen
noun
Cloaca  n.  (pl. cloacae)  
1.
A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
2.
A privy.
3.
(Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.





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"Cloaca" Quotes from Famous Books



... The very Cloaca of Tarquin at Rome are as poetical as Richmond Hill; many will think so: take away Rome and leave the Tiber and the seven hills in the nature of Evander's time. Let Mr. Bowles, or Mr. Wordsworth, or Mr. Southey, or any of the other "naturals," make ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various


Words linked to "Cloaca" :   waste pipe, cavum, sewer, sewage system, drain, sewerage


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