📖 Definitions of "Gapes"
noun
- 1
An act of gaping; a yawn.
- 2
A large opening.
- 3
A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- 4
The width of an opening.
verb
- 1
To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- 2
To stare in wonder.
- 3
To open wide; to display a gap.
- 4
Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
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