gapes

Noun

 * 1) A fit of yawning.
 * The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.
 * 1) 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.