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cloaca

 (n): (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
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25 minutes ago yarb said:

Leonard explores the intestines, where prickly creatures scurry, brushing against his legs. At last he sees daylight and exits through the cloaca.

- William Steig, The Zabajaba Jungle

about 1 year ago brtom said:

The Roman, like the Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot (on our shore he never set it) only his cloacal obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said: It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7

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