Usually means: Common exit for waste, reproduction.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word cloaca:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cloaca: Merriam-Webster
  2. cloaca: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cloaca: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cloaca: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cloaca: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cloaca, cloaca: Wordnik
  7. Cloaca, Cloaca: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. cloaca: Wiktionary
  9. cloaca: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cloaca: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cloaca: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cloaca: Dictionary.com
  13. cloaca: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cloaca (Capri), Cloaca (art), Cloaca (embryology), Cloaca (film), Cloaca: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cloaca: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cloaca: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cloaca: Rhymezone
  18. Cloaca: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cloaca: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cloaca: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. cloaca: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cloaca: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cloaca: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. cloaca: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cloaca: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Cloaca: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. Cloaca (embryology), cloaca: Medical dictionary
  9. Cloaca: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cloaca: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cloacae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cloaca)

noun:  (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
noun:  (anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.
noun:  An outhouse or lavatory.
noun:  (anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
noun:  (embryology) Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.

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