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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  

[skayp] / 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  

[skayp] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of scape

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

scape scaped scaping

“As Outfest was imploding, members of the Outfest Board threw Plaintiff under the bus and sought to make him a scape goat for their own malfeasance.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 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 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

Why, is any of them scaped and gone?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

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

The chase endured a five English miles, and if the Scots had been men enow, there had none scaped, but other they had been taken or slain.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed

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

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

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