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 Translation for 'to gape' from English to Norwegian
VERB   to gape | gaped | gaped
gaping | gapes
SYNO to gape | to gawk | to gawp | ...
å gapeto gape
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Translation for 'to gape' from English to Norwegian

to gape
å gape
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Usage Examples English
  • rugosa" tends to gape open its mouth and display its blue tongue, which is often accompanied with intense hissing.
  • This causes the wall of the cloaca to tear and the anus to gape and the free ends of some of the tubes to be ejected.
  • A toxin is then injected through the hole which causes the barnacle's muscles to relax and the opercular valves to gape, whereupon the dog winkle can easily consume the soft tissues.
  • Through feeding behaviors such as attacking the margin or lip of shells where defenses are weakest, "Stramonita haemastoma" insert its proboscid between the valves injecting proteolytic enzymes and a toxin that causes bivalves to gape.
  • Olive-brown above, with small black spots; frequently two black parallel lines or an elliptic marking on the nape; a light, black-edged streak on each side of the head, or a black line from eye to gape (corner of mouth); belly yellowish, with or without blackish dots; frequently a black line or series of elongate blackish spots along each side of the belly; lower surface of tail frequently mottled with blackish; throat sometimes black.

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