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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

"One chick was just covered in blood, bleeding from every orifice, and we did everything we could to save it, even giving it an emergency blood transfusion from another owl at the center," Mertz says.

From Salon Dec. 26, 2021

Smoke was leaking from every orifice in his head.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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