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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -scape suffix forming nouns - indicating a scene or view of something, esp a pictorial representation: seascape
Etymology: abstracted from landscape scape1 (skāp),USA pronunciation n. - Botanya leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- Zoologya stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather.
- Architecturethe shaft of a column.
- Insects[Entomol.]the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects.
- Doric Greek skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter
- Latin scāpus stalk
- 1595–1605
- escape.
Also, 'scape. -scape, - a combining form extracted from landscape, denoting "an extensive view, scenery,'' or "a picture or representation'' of such a view, as specified by the initial element:cityscape;moonscape;seascape.
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