scape

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See also: -scape

English

Amaryllis belladonna flowering before the new season's leaves emerge, showing the inflorescence borne on a scape.
Image showing the clearly visible antennal scape typical of the beetle family Cerambycidae
Illustration showing the oviscape of the Mexican fruit fly. (Photo by Jack Dykinga)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskeɪp/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

  1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
  2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
  3. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
  4. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
  5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
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Etymology 2

Formed by aphesis from escape.

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Verb

scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)

  1. (archaic) to escape
    • c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)
      No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
      As I have seen in one autumnal face.
      Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
      This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.
    • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: M F for Iohn Marriot, , published 1633, →OCLC:
      Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie,
      And scape spies, to good ends

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

  1. (archaic) escape
  2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
  3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Probably imitative.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

  1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
  2. The snipe itself.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

scāpe

  1. vocative singular of scāpus

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

scape

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of scăpa
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