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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste is eliminated from the body.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The termination of the digestive tube or alimentary canal; the end of the enteron of any animal; the orifice through which the refuse of digestion is voided. The anus is usually on a part of the body away from the mouth, but it is sometimes coincident with the latter. It is usually a circular orifice, provided with a sphincterial arrangement by which it may be shut; but it is sometimes a cleft or chink, the direction of the axis of which distinguishes zoölogical groups: thus, it is longitudinal in turtles, and transverse in lizards and snakes. In many vertebrates and other animals the anus serves for the discharge of the excretion of the kidneys and of the products of the generative organs, as well as of the refuse of digestion. See anal.
  2. n. A suffix of Latin adjectives and nouns thence derived: common in New Latin names, especially specific names.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy The lower opening of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal

Etymologies

  1. First attested in 1658, from Old French anus, from Latin ānus ("ring, anus"), from Proto-Indo-European *ano- (“ring”). See also anal, annular, annelid. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin ānus, ring, anus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb Citation on freeber. Mar 25, 2012

  • jpmaher Industry dictionaries and netymologists typically ignore syntax. In the case of Latin the syntax was "anus culi", ring of the arse... The diminutive appears in Italian anello "'ring" (on finger). Italian anello is not understood as "little anus".
    Mar 11, 2012

  • Cherry anus is such a gross word! the only reason I looked it up is because I need the definition for school. I am learning about the human body in class. Mar 4, 2011

  • oroboros Amazing! How can it be that nobody's listed this word? It's like, everybody's opinion, right!? Dec 31, 2006

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