scape
IPA: skˈeɪp
noun
- (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- 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.
- (archaic) escape
- (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
- (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- The snipe itself.
verb
- (archaic) to escape
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Examples of "scape" in Sentences
- They use software as a scape goat.
- Each scape produces a single flower.
- Scapes are umbellate and dark coloured.
- Antennal scapes smooth to weakly ridged.
- Scape not reaching posterior corner of head.
- This part of the scape is termed the cochlear.
- If that is not going to happen, then scape the infobox.
- He will be looking for a scape goat and it will be the colonel.
- Several of these are arranged in racemes on an elongated scape.
- Muscles are only present in the two first segments, the scape and pedicel.
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