Thesaurus: scape
A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
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Definitions
- n. A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
- n. The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
- n. The shaft of a column.
- n. The apophyge of a shaft.
- v. t. & i. To escape.
- n. An escape.
- n. Means of escape; evasion.
- n. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- n. Loose act of vice or lewdness.
- n. erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
- n. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column