| 单词 |
cloacal |
| 释义 |
cloacal, a.|kləʊˈeɪkəl| [ad. L. cloācālis, f. cloāca; see prec. and -al1.] Pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of, a cloaca or sewer.
1656Blount Glossogr., Cloacal, pertaining to such filth. 1854Badham Halieut. 91 The thousand cloacal pipes..continually pouring out the abominations of the city. b. Phys.
1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 114/2 The intestine [of fishes]..proceeds..to terminate in a cloacal sac. 1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man II. xix. 146 The brain of the Cloacal Animals has remained at a much lower stage of development. Also (chiefly nonce-wds.) cloacaline, cloacean, cloacinal, cloacinean adjs. = prec.
1814Reprint Harington's Metam. Title-p., The Metamorphosis of Ajax; a Cloacinean Satire. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 379 Infected backyard and cloacean staircase. 1879G. Meredith Egoist II. ii. 28 We, sir, dedicate genius to the cloacaline floods. 1887J. M. Wilson Ess. & Addr. 61 This cloacinal region of morals. |

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