Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a cloaca, in any sense.
- In zoology, having a cloaca: applied specifically to the monotremes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
cloaca or thesewer
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Examples
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Most birds don't have insertable parts, achieving fertilization by the so-called cloacal kiss.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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Doctors say the baby is suffering from a rare disorder called cloacal exstrophy.
Top Headlines 2009
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We are well known for our major reconstructive surgical program, in which bladder and cloacal exstrophy (a birth defect in boys and girls), and hypospadias (a urethral defect in boys) are repaired.
Urology 2010
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Can a complete primary repair approach be applied to cloacal exstrophy?
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We were shocked to note that a man who is normally firmly embedded within the cloacal vent of whichever Labour MP is speaking should appear to have spontaneously grown a pair .
BBC's Robinson in Medical Miracle Marvel Dungeekin 2009
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But no: I am still here, in this little office, where the fluorescent light surrounds me like cloacal fluid.
Interview Larissa Shmailo 2012
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These include repairs for bladder exstrophy, cloacal exstrophy, spina bifida, hypospadias and epispadias.
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We were shocked to note that a man who is normally firmly embedded within the cloacal vent of whichever Labour MP is speaking should appear to have spontaneously grown a pair .
Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009
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The morphology is revealing: snakes and lizards have the same regions, cervical (yellow), thoracic (blue), sacral (or cloacal in the snake, which lacks pelvic structures in most species) in green, and caudal or tail segments (red).
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Colours indicate the different vertebral regions: yellow, cervical; dark blue, thoracic; light blue, lumbar; green, sacral (in lizard) or cloacal (in snake); red, caudal.
bilby commented on the word cloacal
"We sat there in the gloom, feeling strong and lucky, knowing that under the hype and the bullshit there had been a genius all along. I don't think anybody clapped even. There was no need. Jimi knew why we sat so still. Not even the cloacal fug of a groovy nightspot could blot out what was going down. He played as long as he wanted to. Nobody shouted, nobody paid. He was playing real good for free and he was happy."
- 'Hey, Jimi, Where You Gonna Run To Now?', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1970.
March 31, 2008