scape /ˈskep/
 花莖;觸角根;羽軸;柱身


 Scape, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.]  To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.]
    Out of this prison help that we may scape.   --Chaucer.


 Scape, n.
 1. An escape. [Obs.]
 I spake of most disastrous chances, . . .
 Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.   --Shak.
 2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.]
 3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]
    Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.   --Milton.
 4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.]

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 Scape n.
 1. Bot. A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
 2. Zool. The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
 3. Arch. (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.


 scape
      n 1: erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground
           as in a tulip [syn: flower stalk]
      2: (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a
         column [syn: shaft]