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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

See Examples For:

scape scaped scaping

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

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023

Two performers led the charge, wheeling a painted banner bearing the name Jovens do Prenda set against a desert scape.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023

That endless yet claustrophobic snow scape, the anxious narcissism of William H. Macy’s scheming car salesman, the glory of Frances McDormand’s pregnant police chief Marge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022

Spadix cylindrical, lateral, sessile, emerging from the side of a simple 2-edged scape which resembles the leaves, densely covered with perfect flowers.

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

How long his senses bore its chilling chain, He knew not—but, recalled to Life again, A stranger stood beside his shivering form— And what was he? had he too scaped the storm?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

And yet for all these Iolly pastimes inuented by this Widdow, to deceyue the poore Scholler, she scaped not free from his Logike rules, not saife from his Philosophy.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

—Nay, sir, you must tarry, Though he be scaped; and answer by the ears, sir.

From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

No, sir, to the parish: Marry, I have seldom scaped scot-free at the Lattice.

From Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

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
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