cloaca

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A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

A privy.

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

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Amphibians, reptiles, and birds use the same orifice (known as the cloaca ) for excreting liquid and solid wastes, for copulation and egg -laying. Source: Internet

By this time, it may have been drained Tarquin might have employed the plebs in constructing a conduit or drain (cloaca) for Murcia's stream, discharging into the Tiber. Source: Internet

He then inserts one of his claspers into her cloaca where they remain for sixty to ninety seconds. Source: Internet

In fish, there is no true large intestine, but simply a short rectum connecting the end of the digestive part of the gut to the cloaca. Source: Internet

It is hypothesized that the cloaca everts to serve as copulatory organ. Source: Internet

Rosenfeld (1989), p. 11. The scalation count determines whether the snake is a male or female as hemipenes of a male will probe to a different depth (usually longer) than the cloaca of a female. Source: Internet

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