as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
the mouth is a bodily orifice
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Recent Examples of orifice
Flies find a dead body very quickly and lay their eggs in a natural orifice, such as an eye, or in a wound.
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
One spring, or manantial, is fed by groundwater that flows from a small orifice in the rock to create the larger pool.
—Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
This fleshy conglomerate feels vaguely seductive despite having only navels for orifices, only knee-like lumps for appendages.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
There’s a questionable orifice in the front of his forehead.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
One spring, or manantial, is fed by groundwater that flows from a small orifice in the rock to create the larger pool.
—Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
This fleshy conglomerate feels vaguely seductive despite having only navels for orifices, only knee-like lumps for appendages.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
There’s a questionable orifice in the front of his forehead.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orifice
Noun
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And for those with chronic conditions, every year that passes without a cure closes the aperture on what quality of life is eventually possible.—
Becky Quick,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2026
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In Stubb’s Cave, strangler-fig roots teemed from ceiling apertures.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His absence left yet another hole in the quartet featuring him, Ball, Knueppel and Bridges.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Jan. 2026
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Plunging directly in the frigid lake via holes carved in the ice.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Orifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orifice. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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