scape
A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structureA leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
Meaning
11 sensesA leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
Schaft
стре́лкаstrélka
erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
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.
The shaft of a column.
The apophyge of a shaft.
The cry of the snipe when flushed.
The snipe itself.
(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.
Translations
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Origin
From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft. FroFrom Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
Probably imitative.
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Forms
plural: scapesSynonyms
2 synonyms- erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip:flower stalk
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column:shaft