cloaca

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

They transform some of those same nitrogen-based compounds into solids known as "urates," which are expelled through a shared opening called the cloaca.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

It can “breathe” through its cloaca if it needs to.

From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 6, 2024

Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2023

He swabbed the mouth and the cloaca and finally drew some blood from a vein in the neck.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 8, 2022

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

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)