scape
pronunciation
How to pronounce scape in British English:
UK [skeɪp]
How to pronounce scape in American English:
US [skeɪp]
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- Noun:
- erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
Word Origin
- scape (n.1)
- "scenery view," 1773, abstracted from landscape (n.); as a comb. element, first attested use is 1796, in prisonscape.
- scape (v.)
- late 13c., shortened form of escape; frequent in prose till late 17c. Related: Scaped (sometimes 15c.-16c. with strong past tense scope); scaping. As a noun from c. 1300.
- scape (n.2)
- "shaft, stem," c. 1600, from Latin scapus "a stalk, shaft," cognate with Greek skapos "staff," skeptron "staff, scepter" (see scepter).
Example
- 1. Consider scape environment during highway construction design and remold .
- 2. Scape axillary , proximally with bractlike cauline leaves .
- 3. City scape from the funicular to castle hill .
- 4. Leaf petiole and scape pubescent .
- 5. Scape erect or ascending ; inflorescences cymose , sometimes umbellate .