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drainpipe vs cloaca

cloaca vs drainpipe

drainpipe and cloaca both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
drainpipe Yes No No No
cloaca Yes No No No
As nouns, cloaca is a hyponym of drainpipe; that is, cloaca is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drainpipe:
  • drainpipe: a pipe through which liquid is carried away
  • cloaca: a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
Other hyponyms of drainpipe include culvert, scupper, sewer, sewerage, soil pipe, trap.
drainpipe (noun) cloaca (noun)
a pipe through which liquid is carried away a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
(zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
Difference between drainpipe and cloaca

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