gapes
Meaning of gapes
noun
- An act of gaping; a yawn.
- A large opening.
- A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- The width of an opening.
- The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
- To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- To stare in wonder.
- To open wide; to display a gap.
- Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
Information about gapes
- The singular form of gapes is: gape.
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Hyphenation of gapes
gapes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- gapes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of gapes
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