单词 | cloaca |
释义 | cloaca (once / 38626 pages) n WORD FAMILY cloaca: cloacae, cloacas USAGE EXAMPLESIn the final room of the exhibition space, they’ve cut a hole in the floor through which you can see down into this centuries-old cloaca. New York Times(Aug 29, 2016) “You fill the cloaca with water or air. Then you can go in with an endoscope and look around,” Hudson explained. Scientific American(Jul 22, 2015) Dr. Kuchling examined the sedated female’s cloaca with a fiber-optic endoscope to locate the compartment leading to her oviducts. New York Times(May 25, 2015) 1n (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 Hyper bodily cavity, cavity, cavum (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body 2n a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water Syn|Hyper sewer, sewerage drain, drainpipe, waste pipe a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
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