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Meaning of "cloaca" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLOACA

From Latin: sewer; related to Greek kluzein to wash out.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CLOACA

cloaca  [kləʊˈeɪkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOACA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cloaca is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLOACA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cloaca

Cloaca

In zoological anatomy, a cloaca /kloʊˈeɪkə/ is the posterior opening that serves as the only opening for the intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts of certain animal species. All amphibians, birds, reptiles, and monotremes possess this orifice, from which they excrete both urine and feces, unlike most placental mammals, which possess two or three separate orifices for evacuation. The cloacal region is also often associated with a secretory organ, the cloacal gland, which has been implicated in the scent-marking behavior of some reptiles, amphibians, and monotremes.

Definition of cloaca in the English dictionary

The definition of cloaca in the dictionary is a cavity in the pelvic region of most vertebrates, except higher mammals, and certain invertebrates, into which the alimentary canal and the genital and urinary ducts open. Other definition of cloaca is a sewer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLOACA


acre
ˈeɪkə
baker
ˈbeɪkə
bookmaker
ˈbʊkˌmeɪkə
breaker
ˈbreɪkə
caretaker
ˈkɛəˌteɪkə
coffee-maker
ˈkɒfɪmeɪkə
faker
ˈfeɪkə
heartbreaker
ˈhɑːtˌbreɪkə
homemaker
ˈhəʊmˌmeɪkə
icebreaker
ˈaɪsˌbreɪkə
Jamaica
dʒəˈmeɪkə
lawmaker
ˈlɔːmeɪkə
maker
ˈmeɪkə
pacemaker
ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkə
Quaker
ˈkweɪkə
saker
ˈseɪkə
shaker
ˈʃeɪkə
shoemaker
ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə
taker
ˈteɪkə
undertaker
ˈʌndəˌteɪkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLOACA

cloacae
cloacal
cloacaline
cloacinal
cloacitis
cloak
cloak-and-dagger
cloakroom
cloakroom attendant
cloakroom ticket
cloam
clobber
clobbering machine
clochard
cloche
clock
clock card
clock face
clock golf

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLOACA

abaca
alpaca
caca
Caesarea Mazaca
Chuquisaca
coulibiaca
Cuernavaca
Ithaca
jararaca
koulibiaca
Lake Titicaca
maraca
Oaxaca
paca
pataca
portulaca
raca
Titicaca

Synonyms and antonyms of cloaca in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cloaca» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLOACA

Find out the translation of cloaca to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cloaca from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cloaca» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

泄殖腔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cloaca
570 millions of speakers

English

cloaca
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्लोअका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مجرور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

клоака
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cloaca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মত্স্যের পায়ু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

égout
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kloaka
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kloake
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

排出腔
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

배설강
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cloaca
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rảnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எச்சத் துவாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लोका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lağım
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cloaca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

клоака
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cloaca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποχωρητήριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cloaca
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cloaca
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cloaca
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cloaca

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOACA»

The term «cloaca» is regularly used and occupies the 76.187 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOACA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cloaca» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cloaca» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cloaca

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOACA»

Discover the use of cloaca in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cloaca and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cloaca
Essays by Georges Bataille, Dan Cameron, Salvador Dali, Milan Kundera, Domique Laporte, Gerardo Mosquera, Dieter Roelstraete, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Bexte.
Wim Delvoye, 2001
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Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction
This establishes an embryonic cloaca that is derived from both endoderm and ectoderm. The portion of the embryonic cloaca most closely associated with the hindgut is the coprodeum while the region associated with the urinary structures is ...
Julian Lombardi, 1998
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Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Those who postulate the lack of cloaca as a primitive feature may not have been aware that cyclostome and teleosts have a cloaca early in embryonic development, but that is shortly subdivided and lost. This supports the idea that the ...
Marvalee H. Wake, 1992
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Small Animal Care and Management
REPRODUCTION. The reproductive organs of a male bird are the testes, ductus deferens, and the cloaca. See Figure 19-27. The testes of the male, which produce the sperm, remain in the abdominal cavity and do not descend into a scrotum.
Dean Marvin Warren, 2002
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Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment
Although bird urine contains precipitated uric acid, it must remain relatively liquid in the nephrons and in the ureter until it enters the cloaca, which is the very last portion of the intestine. Here urine and fecal material accumulate until, ...
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, 1997
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The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View from Energetics
1997). Alligator mississippiensis in freshwater produced urine with low concentrations of Na+ and K+, which remained nearly the same when the urine was retained in the cloaca. With exposure to dilute salt water, the alligator had high urinary ...
Brian Keith McNab, 2002
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Frog Dissection Manual
URETERS The paired ureters, or Wolffian ducts, are conducting tubes that transport urine and in the male, sperm, from the hili of the kidneys caudally to the cloaca. They are small tubes and are located against the dorsal body wall. URINARY ...
Bruce D. Wingerd, 1988
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Cloaca
Maria Goos' play is a darkly funny examination of friendship and aspirations, exploring how men compromise their emotional lives in the constant quest for money, power and reputation. Cloaca premiegrave;red at the Old Vic in September 2004.
Maria Goos, 2004
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Complications in Laser Cutaneous Surgery
(a) Undivided internal cloaca at the 4 mm stage of development. The developing urorectal septum separates the allantois from the hindgut. The allantoic extension to the left leads to the umbilical cord and the future navel; this extension forms ...
David J. Goldberg, 2004
10
Biology of Turtles: From Structures to Strategies of Life
The short, muscular vagina keeps the eggs from entering the cloaca until oviposition (Palmer & Guillette, 1988). The vagina may or may not contain glands ; if present, the glands support sperm storage (Sever & Hamlett, 2002). Details of the ...
Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, Vincent Bels, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOACA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cloaca is used in the context of the following news items.
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The kinky secret sex lives of sharks
The male inserts his clasper into the female's cloaca — the urinary/reproductive opening — and deposits his sperm, along with some sea water. «New York Post, Jul 15»
2
Foodies, it's time you took a road trip around Tasmania
... hotchpotch of ancient coinage, Roman mosaics and neo-conceptual works, such as Wim Delvoye's Cloaca Professional – essentially a stinky ... «Daily Life, Jul 15»
3
Scientists make novel attempt to save giant turtle species
Gerald examined the sedated female's cloaca with a fiber-optic endoscope to locate the compartment leading to her oviducts. Then Barbara ... «Deccan Herald, Jun 15»
4
Rare, bum-breathing Mary River Turtle finally surfaces
Not like a snorkel — don't be ridiculous — but by extracting oxygen from water that it draws in through gill-like organs in its cloaca, which is ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
5
David M. Rubenstein Becomes National Gallery of Art Trustee
... including Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg's painting View of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome (1814), Richard Parks Bonington's painting The Grand ... «Fine Books & Collections Magazine, Jun 15»
6
Poppy appeal passes halfway mark
Eight-year-old Poppy Wadsworth has a condition called cloaca, which means several of her internal organs are not properly separated, and ... «The Press, York, Jun 15»
7
My date with a dead bird: A snapshot of the ethical taxidermy …
This reveals a faint line running from neck to cloaca (the genital and excretory area). "Or, as Louis C.K. says, 'Birds have one dirty hole,'" ... «Mashable, Jun 15»
8
Wallaroo joey now outside his mother's pouch at the Oakland Zoo
They start in their mother's cloaca and then move to the pouch. It takes nearly six months before the joeys start peeking outside the pouch. «abc7news.com, Jun 15»
9
Jerome Christenson: When (it) happens ... on your head
Still, being the unintended target of an indiscriminate avian anus (OK, cloaca for the ornithologically expert) has little enough to recommend it, ... «Winona Daily News, Jun 15»
10
Why Do Snakes Have A Hemipenis?
But for the most part, a snake will keep its hemipenis tucked away inside its cloaca. The organ isn't entirely hidden. It changes the shape of the ... «io9, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cloaca [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cloaca>. Apr 2024 ».
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