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.
Examples from the web for scape
Engineers must wear scape suits, designed to protect them from the toxic fuel.
Garlic scapes are picked off the plant to increase bulb size, but a scape pesto can be the envy of all your friends.
The sound of cell phone conversations has long been part of the ambient noise scape common to urban settings.
They are the scape goats for all of the political and domestic instability.
They seek to run their countries into the ground and blame a scape goat when things go bad.
Descriptive of a leafless stem that bears an inflorescence or describing a plant that has a scape.
British Dictionary definitions for scape
scape1
/skeɪp/
noun
1.
a leafless stalk in plants that arises from a rosette of leaves and bears one or more flowers
2.
(zoology) a stalklike part, such as the first segment of an insect's antenna
Derived Forms
scapose, adjective
Word Origin
C17: from Latin scāpus stem, from (Doric) Greek skapos; see shaft
indicating a scene or view of something, esp a pictorial representation: seascape
Word Origin
abstracted from landscape
Word Origin and History for scape
n.
"scenery view," 1773, abstracted from landscape (n.); as a comb. element, first attested use is 1796, in prisonscape.
v.
late 13c., shortened form of escape; frequent in prose till late 17c. Related: Scaped (sometimes 15c.-16c. with strong past tense scope); scaping. As a noun from c.1300.