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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

Noses are now our preferred orifice to swab.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 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

Smoke was leaking from every orifice in his head.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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