Meaning of Orifice | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
2. One of the natural external openings of the human or animal body.
3. A stupid or objectionable person.
   derogatory, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound; he entered the cave's gaping orifice”

“As none of the ovicells were observed to be closed by the operculum, presumably because they were empty and the opercula were resting on the primary orifice rim, the ovicell closure type is subcleithral rather than cleithral [51 ], at least in some species of the genus.”

“the vagina and other orifices”

“The maw-worm could emerge unexpectedly from any orifice, including, most alarmingly, the corner of people's eyes.”

“For example, cultures that scorn open orifices of all kinds despise uninfibulated female genitals too[…]”

““Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.””

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