orifice
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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
Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.
From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2023
Gases that build up after death can be expelled through any orifice in the body, including the mouth, and may carry infectious virus, the researchers said.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022
Noses are now our preferred orifice to swab.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022
So it is zero outside, Quentin thought; soon he will raise the window and do deep-breathing in it, clench-fisted and naked to the waist, in the warm and rosy orifice above the iron quad.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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