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How to pronounce scape in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms flower stalk
Type of stalk, stem
Has types peduncle
Type Words
Synonyms shaft
Type of vertical, upright

Examples of scape

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Unable to be extinguished, the fires spread, creating an apocalyptic city-scape.
From the dispatch.com
So Donah can go right ahead and play the same game of slander and scape-goating.
From the economist.com
Joanna Langford is one of the eight artists who envisioned works for 6th SCAPE.
From the scoop.co.nz
Scape has perfected all 15 layers of its Vegetable Lasagna, all vegan, all raw.
From the stltoday.com
Heck, the north shore NCPD cops do little more than scape dead cats off the road.
From the newsday.com
I cut off the scapes last week and had some amazing roasted-scape mashed potatoes.
From the newsday.com
Perhaps it is better to have resilient invasive species than a man made moon-scape?
From the newscientist.com
The underground portion of the scape anchors the pip while it develops roots.
From the chron.com
When the scape stands up straight, it indicates that the plant is ready for harvest.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
  • Shaft: (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
  • ~scape is a Berlin-based record label focusing on various subgenres of electronica and experimental music.
  • In botany, scapes are flowering stems, usually leafless, rising from the crown or roots of a plant. Scapes can have a single flower or many flowers, depending on the species. Some show scales, foliaceous bracts and sometimes even branches.
  • A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root; the lowest part of an insect's antenna; the shaft of a column; to escape
  • A stalk from the base of the plant that has flowers and not leaves
  • The stem-like flowering stalk of a plant with radical leaves.
  • A flowering stem with no leaves which arises from the ground or near ground level.
  • Flowering stem of a plant whose leaves are all radical, bearing a terminal capitulum. Sometimes also defined as possessing 'only basal foliage leaves and one or more capitula' as well as 'sometimes possessing bracts (or reduced scale leaves)' on the scape.