orifice
noun
or·i·fice
| \ ˈȯr-ə-fəs
, ˈär-\
, ˈär-\
Definition of orifice
: an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass
an anatomical orifice the nozzle orifice the cone built up from the cinders around the eruption orifice— R. H. Mohlenbrock
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Other Words from orifice
orificial
\ ˌȯr-ə-ˈfi-shəl
, ˌär- \
adjective
, ˌär- \
adjective
Examples of orifice in a Sentence
the mouth is a bodily orifice
Recent Examples on the Web
When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices. — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, "Review: A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall," 6 July 2019 Trails meander around three lakes and along a creek to Running Eagle Falls, which gushes through a giant stone orifice. — National Geographic, "A guide to Glacier National Park," 17 Apr. 2019 The mouth was cone-shaped with curved, hooked spines around the entire orifice leading the study authors to believe that C. falcatus fed by sifting through sediment in the ocean. — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, "Ancient Anthropod Named After Star Wars' Millennium Falcon," 31 July 2019 When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices. — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, "Review: A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall," 6 July 2019 When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices. — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, "Review: A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall," 6 July 2019 When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices. — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, "Review: A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall," 6 July 2019 When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices. — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, "A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall," 3 July 2019 This bleached black-and-white, trippy tangle of naked bodies, with men posing like Greek statues, women painted to suggest paleolithic fertility goddesses, and anonymous fingers probing bodily orifices in mega close-up, was mind-boggling then. — J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, "Barbara Rubin, Shameless Angel of Avant-Garde Cinema," 21 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'orifice.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for orifice
orifice
noun
English Language Learners Definition of orifice
formal
: a hole or opening and especially one in your body (such as your mouth, ear, nostril, etc.)
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orifice
noun
or·i·fice
| \ ˈȯr-ə-fəs, ˈär-
\
\
Medical Definition of orifice
: an opening through which something may pass
Other Words from orifice
orificial
\ ˌȯr-ə-ˈfish-əl, ˌär-
\
adjective
\
adjective
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