gapes

noun

1. plural of gape

2. (plural only) A fit of yawning.

- The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.

3. (plural only) A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe.

- The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of gape