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Gapes vs Gaper - What's the difference?

gapes | gaper |

As nouns the difference between gapes and gaper

is that gapes is while gaper is one who gapes; a starer.

As a verb gapes

is (gape).

gapes

English

(wikipedia gapes)

Verb

(head)
  • (gape)

    • Noun

    (head)
  • (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.
  • (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.

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    gaper

    English

    (wikipedia gaper) (Serranus cabrilla)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who gapes; a starer.
  • Any of several species of burrowing clams.
  • The comber, a fish of the species .
  • The fish

    • Hyponyms

    * (burrowing clams) king clam

    Derived terms

    * blue-billed gaper * blunt gaper * fat gaper * gaper clam * gaper pea crab * gaper snake-eel * gapers' block * gapeworm * little gaper * Pacific gaper * redeye gaper * sand gaper * sickle-billed gaper

    Synonyms

    * (fish) comber

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