cloaca
cloacal
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a word derived from
cloaca.
Example Sentences
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Once corralled, the birds will undergo a blood draw, as well as an oral and cloacal swab.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
What she couldn’t find in person, she and her colleagues scavenged online, until the team had amassed a hefty survey of the known cloacal landscape.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
Digestive and excretory wastes are collected in a cloacal bladder before being released out the anus.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
When the researchers attached cloacal tissue to other parts of the chick embryo, they saw the buds indicative of penis growth where they should not have otherwise formed.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 5, 2014
The male continues to flutter his wings to maintain balance throughout the two seconds of cloacal contact.
From Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon by Jon C. Barlow
