Cloaca

[klәu'eikә]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (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.

阿伦編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

(n.) A privy.

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

校對:潘西

解釋/意思:

n. a sewer: a privy: a cavity in birds and reptiles in which the intestinal and urinary ducts terminate: a sink of moral filth:—pl. Cloac (klō-ā′sē).—adjs. Cloā′cal Cloā′cinal.

校對:苏西