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orifice

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7
Pronunciation
/ˈɒɹɪfɪs/(UK)
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/ˈɒɹɪfɪs/(UK) · /ˈɔɹəfɪs/(US)

Definition of orifice

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
    “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.”
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noun

  1. A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
    “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.”
  2. One of the natural external openings of the human or animal body.
    “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[…]”
  3. (derogatory, slang)A stupid or objectionable person.
    ““Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.””

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin ōrificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of ōs (“mouth”) + faciō (“to make”).

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