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orifice

[awr-uh-fis, or-] / ˈɔr ə fɪs, ˈɒr- /


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Second, smaller animals are expected to pee in droplets because their orifice is too tiny to emit anything thicker.

From Science Daily Mar. 11, 2024

They live in every habitat on every continent and in every orifice, organ and body part of their hosts.

From Scientific American May 18, 2022

Although only about 1,600 people died of Ebola over those years, the grotesque nature their deaths — copious hemorrhaging from every orifice — has lent the disease a frightening reputation.

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2016

There is just dangerously hot air rushing out of every orifice.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2016

“Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did. Well, so did plenty of people, you three included, by the looks of it.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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