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say it: yur-EE-thruh
urethra is a noun meaning "duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct". It carries one recorded sense.
duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for urethra come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.