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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