Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Botany A leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground, as in the tulip.
  • noun Biology A stalklike part, such as a feather shaft or the first segment of an insect's antenna.
  • noun Architecture The shaft of a column.
  • noun A scene; a view. Often used in combination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cry of the snipe when flushed.
  • noun The snipe itself.
  • To escape.
  • noun An escape.
  • noun Means of escape; evasion.
  • noun Freak; aberration; deviation; escapade; misdemeanor; trick; cheat.
  • noun In botany, a radical peduncle or stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus, primrose, hepatica, stemless violets, hyacinth, etc. See also cuts under jonquil and puttyroot. Also scapus.
  • noun In entomology: The basal joint of an antenna, especially when it is long and slender, as in the geniculate antennæ of many hymenopters and coleopters, or the two proximal joints, as in dipters, generally small and different from the others. The stem-like basal portion of the halter or poiser of a dipter.
  • noun In ornithology, the shaft or stem of a feather; a rachis; a scapus.
  • noun In architecture, the apophyge or spring of a column; the part where a column springs from its base, usually molded into a concave sweep or cavetto.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.
  • noun The shaft of a column.
  • noun The apophyge of a shaft.
  • noun obsolete An escape.
  • noun obsolete Means of escape; evasion.
  • noun obsolete A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  • noun obsolete Loose act of vice or lewdness.
  • verb Obs. or Poetic. To escape.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic to escape
  • noun archaic escape
  • noun botany a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
  • noun the lowest part of an insect's antenna
  • noun architecture the shaft of a column

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
  • noun (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin scāpus, stalk, perhaps from Greek skāpos.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From landscape.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Formed by aphesis from escape.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin scāpus, from Ancient Greek (Doric) σκᾶπος (skâpos).

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Examples

  • Karl was not without _his_ hair-breadth "'scape" -- having been chased by

    The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

  • Teach them to cut the entire flowering stem (called a scape) to the base, to bring cuttings indoors when they are just beginning to open and to place them in water immediately.

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  • Hardneck garlic developes an impressive flowering stalk, called a scape, which can grow from 24 to 48 inches in height.

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  • Hardneck garlic developes an impressive flowering stalk, called a scape, which can grow from 24 to 48 inches in height.

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  • [Illustration: Hepatica] "And a scape was a 'grace' or a 'goat' according to its activities," concluded Tom.

    Ethel Morton's Enterprise 1903

  • "A scape is a stem that grows up right from the or root-stock and carries only a flower -- not any leaves," defined Helen.

    Ethel Morton's Enterprise 1903

  • If I wait for garlic scape, which is usually pretty cheap, I can make any ramp recipe.

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  • And then the high priest would take the remainder of the blood and pour it on the backside of a goat and thrust the goat out of the community and the goat was called the scape goat which was sin laden.

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  • This Pole track was on the NWW list / WM Berger / blog download at WFMU wasn't it? there is an artist called pole on the german label scape

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  • The scape is the flowering stalk found on members of the Allium family (onions, leeks, chives and garlic).

    Mount Vernon News 2009

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  • stem-like basal portion of the

    halter

    or poiser

    of a dipter

    August 20, 2012