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Definition of Scape

1. Noun. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.

2. Noun. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column.

Definition of Scape

1. n. A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

2. v. t. & i. To escape.

3. n. An escape.

Definition of Scape

1. Noun. (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root ¹

2. Noun. the lowest part of an insect's antenna ¹

3. Noun. (architecture) the shaft of a column ¹

4. Verb. (archaic) to escape ¹

5. Noun. (archaic) escape ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scape

1. to escape [v SCAPED, SCAPING, SCAPES] - See also: escape

Medical Definition of Scape

1. The stem-like, flowering stalk of a plant with leaves clustered around the base of its stem. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scape

scantlet scantlets scantling scantlings scantly scantness scantnesses scantron scantrons scants

scanty scapa scapaed scapaing scapas scape (current term) scaped scapegoat scapegoated scapegoating

scapegoatism scapegoatisms scapegoats scapegrace scapegraces scapeless scapement scapements scapes scapha

Literary usage of Scape

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"scape naked, sub-pubescent: leaves erect, rigid, oblong, flat: leaves and calyx pilose; hairs mostly simple: silicic» linc'iir. ciliate, somewhat shining, ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"B. Base of If. distinctly cordate although BB. scape and infl. pubescent 3. purpurascens narrow: calyx glabrous 4. ligulata BB. Base of If. usually narrowed ..."

3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Pliait, ined. ; scape capillary distant from and much shorter than the long ... 55 ; scape stout loosely sheathed, flowers in a dense globose ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lvs. long and rather narrow, loose-spreading, shorter than the scape : fls. large, ... Fls. greenish white on scape 4-12 in. high in early spring. ..."

5. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"scape a foot or more high, bearing a thin, 2-leaved, deciduous spathe at top, ... This is our handsomest species. Bulb 6 to 8" diam. scape mostly ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"This scape-wheel has forty-two teeth, which is more than the usual number. If there were sixty teeth, and the pendulum marked one second at each swinging, ..."

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