English Dictionary

gapes

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡeɪps/

名詞

活用形 複数形 不可算名詞

plural of gape / (uncountable) A fit of yawning. / (uncountable) A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe, and having uneasy gaping as a symptom.

日本語の意味

あくび：口を大きく開ける行為、特にあくびが連続して現れる状態（「gape」の複数形としての用法） / 家禽などの若い鳥に見られる病気：気管に寄生する寄生線虫が原因で、口が不自然に大きく開いた状態が症状として現れる疾患

The storm left the cliff face riddled with gapes that threatened to swallow the narrow path.

嵐のせいで崖の表面は大きな裂け目だらけになり、狭い道が飲み込まれそうになった。

意味（1）

plural of gape

意味（2）

(uncountable) A fit of yawning.

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

意味（3）

(uncountable) A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe, and having uneasy gaping as a symptom.

The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.