Words That End With: CAE

• (sometimes figurative) A sewer.

• The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.

• An outhouse or lavatory.

• A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.

• Any external case or sheath.

• The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther.

• The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle.

• The membrane complex enveloping the cells of certain plankton including diatoms and dinoflagellates.

• The calcareous wall of a corallite, the exoskeleton of a coral polyp.

• A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist.

• A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.

• Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.

• A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.

• The bend of the wing of a bird.

• A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.

• A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

• Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.

• The protective case or shell of a Loricifera, infusorian or rotifer