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noun
A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
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noun
The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
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noun
The shaft of a column.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
The apophyge of a shaft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
Escape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A means of escape; evasion.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A loose act of vice or lewdness.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
The cry of the snipe when flushed.
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noun
The snipe itself.
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verb
To escape (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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noun
(architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shaft
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Broader terms: upright, vertical
noun
erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: flower stalk
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Broader terms: stalk, stem
Narrower terms: peduncle
History
From 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.
Across languages
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