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What is the noun for gape?

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gape
  1. (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
  2. A large opening.
  3. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
  4. The width of an opening.
  5. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Them were happy days, when we had all the money we needed to ride off the main pike from Williams and take a gape at the Grand Canyon.”
gaper
  1. One who gapes; a starer.
  2. Any of several species of burrowing clams.
  3. The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla.
  4. The fish Champsodon capensis
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  6. Examples:
    1. “They all try to out beat the other with the best impression of a gaper.”
      “That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.”
      Gaper clams are edible and are heavily fished at spring tides.”
gaping
  1. The act of one who gapes.
  2. Something gaping; something agape.
gapes
gapings
  1. plural of gaping
gapers
  1. plural of gaper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the shade of a sycamore grove, bikers sat cross-legged on idled Harleys, heckling the gapers and high-fiving each other.”
      “Areas exhibiting mixed sand and mud constitute a relatively stable substrate in which typical sand-living animals, such as sand gapers, lugworms, and razor shells, dwell.”
      “The starers, and wonderers, and gapers engross a very large share of the attention of all the sons of the type.”
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