THE GAPES

Definitions: THE GAPES

THE GAPES

1. A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

2. A fit of yawning.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Translations: THE GAPES

Language		Translations for "THE GAPES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		последователни прозевки. (various references)

Hungarian		untat vkit (to give sy the gapes, to make sy tired), ásításra késztet vkit (to give sy the gapes). (various references)

Manx		ny blakeyn (the gapes in poultry). (various references)

Pig Latin		ethay apesgay

Turkish		kümes hayvanlarında esneme hastalığı, esneme nöbeti. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: THE GAPES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: egesta, etapes, peages, peseta, phages, spahee, spathe.
	-3 letters: egest, ephas, etape, gapes, gates, geest, geste, getas, ghast, ghats, ghees, haets, haste, hates, heaps, heats, pages, paste, pates, paths, peage, peags, pease, peats, phage, phase, septa, setae, shape, sheep, sheet, spate, stage, staph, steep, tapes, tease, tepas, these.
	-4 letters: agee, ages, apes, apse, ates.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-p-s-t"
	+2 letters: legateship, telegraphs.
	+3 letters: legateships, stereograph.
	+4 letters: gametophores, gametophytes, paperweights, pathogeneses, pathogenesis, preslaughter, stenographer, stepdaughter, stereographs, stereography, superheating, telegraphers, telegraphese, telegraphies, telegraphist.
	+5 letters: ethnographers, ethnographies, magnetosphere, petrographers, petrographies, photoengraves, spaghettilike, stenographers, stenographies, stepdaughters, stereographed, stereographic, telegrapheses, telegraphists.
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