anuses
- plural of anus.
Example Sentences
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The authors describe parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs inside the cocoons of other parasitoid wasps, for example, and leeches that spend their entire lives inside the anuses of hippopotamuses.
From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2022
Comb jellies are their own group separate from jellyfish, who have no anuses and thus poop out their mouths.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2021
But scientists have always been uncertain how wombats – which have circular anuses – fashion their feces into their unusual shape.
From Fox News • Jul. 14, 2020
Despite having round anuses like other mammals, wombats do not produce round pellets, tubular coils or messy piles.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2018
But over the millennia, some blobs straightened out and gave way to animals with heads to ingest food on one end, anuses to defecate at the other, and guts in between.
From National Geographic
