Scape
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈskeɪp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scape is a noun meaning (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
Meaning
(botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
More Meanings
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column.
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
- (transitive, archaic) To escape (someone or something).
- (archaic) Escape.
- (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
Example Sentences
Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape
Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends
I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
Word Forms
- scapes
- scaping
- scaped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antennal, goat, bulb, offset, mentum, spawn.
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