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scape

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noun

Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.

Zoology. a stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather.

Architecture. the shaft of a column.

Entomology. the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects.

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

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noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), scaped, scap·ing. Archaic.

escape.

Also, '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: cityscape; moonscape; seascape.

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scape¹ (skeɪp)

—n
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

[C17: from Latin scāpus stem, from (Doric) Greek skapos; see shaft]

'scapose¹

—*adj*

scape or 'scape² (skeɪp)

—vb, —n
	an archaic word for escape

'scape or 'scape²

—vb, —n

scape or 'scape² (skeɪp)

—vb, —n
	an archaic word for escape

'scape or 'scape²

—vb, —n

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scape

"scenery view," 1773, abstracted from landscape (q.v.); as a new comb. element, first attested use is 1796, in prisonscape.

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scape

c.1275, aphetic form of escape; frequent in prose till late 17c.

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