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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A nematode worm (Syngamus trachea) that infects the tracheas of certain birds and causes gapes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A nematoid worm, Syngamus trachealis, the cause of gapes in fowls.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A parasitic nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that infects the tracheas of some birds and causes the disease gapes

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

Examples

  • “[3] Gapeworms "lodge in the hen's throat" ... nuts! The larvae of the gapeworm live and mature in the lungs, trachea and bronchi, causing a severe pneumonia in young birds.”

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