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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

“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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022

Pod membranaceous, 3-lobed.—Leaves and low scape from a coated bulb.

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

"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

Hard was his lot whom these rare qualities Preserved not, neither had his dauntless heart Been iron, had he scaped his cruel doom.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

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

From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

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
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