What is the meaning of cloaca?

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  • 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. (
  • A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
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