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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

I think with the discovery of zero, it was almost like a celebration of the dark and light of the yin and the yang and everything coming together just expanded the human scape of imagination.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

Explore an immersive experience featuring large-scale animal and nature scape lanterns representing wild places from around the globe 4-9 p.m. at Woodland Park Zoo.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2022

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

Flowers bractless, in a spike-like raceme terminating a jointless scape.

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 Gray, Asa

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

He could not else have scaped you in the search.

From Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

His page, Ascanio, is at the grate, To know, from him, how you had scaped this danger; And brings with him those habits— Soph.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

How do you, masters, how do you? how have you scaped hanging this long time?

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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 Playtner, H. R.

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• aspect
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