gaper
Example Sentences
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“There’s nothing like the surprising chill of sitting down on a toilet gaper in the dark.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2018
Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2018
“This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird—the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon.”
From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous
That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.
From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous
Comber, kom′bēr, n. a name applied to the gaper, a sea-perch, and to a species of wrasse.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
