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• scape
  scape

  noun

  a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
• -scape
  -scape

  a combining form extracted from landscape, denoting “an extensive view, scenery,” or “a picture or representation” of such a view, as specified by the initial element.

scape

¹ American  

[skeyp] / skeɪp /

noun

1. Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.

2. Zoology. a stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather.

3. Architecture. the shaft of a column.

4. Entomology. the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects.

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scape ² American  

[skeyp] / skeɪp /

Or 'scape

noun

Archaic.

scaped, scaping

1. an archaic variant of escape.

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-scape ³ American  

1. a combining form extracted from landscape, denoting “an extensive view, scenery,” or “a picture or representation” of such a view, as specified by the initial element.

   cityscape; moonscape; seascape.

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scape ¹ British  

/ skeɪp /

noun

1. a leafless stalk in plants that arises from a rosette of leaves and bears one or more flowers

2. zoology a stalklike part, such as the first segment of an insect's antenna

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-scape ² British  

suffix

1. indicating a scene or view of something, esp a pictorial representation

   seascape

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scape ³ British  

/ skeɪp /

verb

1. an archaic word for escape

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Other Word Forms

• scapose
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of scape

1595–1605; < Latin scāpus stalk < Doric Greek skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter

Example Sentences

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scape scaped scaping

For example, Nancy Romanovsky’s oil paintings reflect scenes such as a tide scape at Tolmie State Park along Puget Sound.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023

That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022

The lone Black woman, Syms captures the humor-filled pleasure and horror scape of art school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Embryo in the axis of albumen.—Low perennial herbs, with a tuberous rootstock or corm, sending up a simple scape sheathed with the petioles of the simple or compound veiny leaves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

Him followed his next mate; Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood As gods, and by their own recovered strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

"Yes, Mr. Tom, he scaped me all right."

From Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures by Victor [pseud.] Appleton

But the Common Prayer Book had the fate of St. Paul; for when it had scaped the storms of the Roman See, yet a viper sprung out of Queen Mary's fires, &c.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge

Verily verily I say unto you: He that heareth my words, And believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into damnation: but is scaped from death unto life.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

As her body was lowered into the ground, men surrounded the grave, scaping the sand and dirt over it with their hands and placing a rough headstone.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022

If the pallets embraced 4 teeth, the angle would be 84°; or in case of a 16 tooth wheel scaping over three teeth, the angle would be 360 × 2.5⁄16 = 56¼°.

From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by H. R. Playtner

Related Words

• aspect
• outlook
• view
• vision