[1900–05; scape1 + -ose1]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, hormone, hydroplane, throwaway-ose is a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, meaning “full of,” “aboundingin,” “given to,” “like”. Other words that use the affix -ose include: frondose, globose, jocose, otiose, verbose
Examples of 'scapose' in a sentence
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In the area sampled 84 months after fire, both nanophanerophytes and scapose herbaceous chamaephytes were dominant.
Luis Fernando Tavares de Menezes, Dorothy Sue Dunn de Araujo 2004, 'Regeneração e riqueza da formação arbustiva de Palmae em uma cronoseqüência pós-fogona Restinga da Marambaia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil The structure and diversity ofthree areas of shrubby restinga vegetation were analyzed 3, 12 and 84 months afterfire in the Marambaia Restinga, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062004000400007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)