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Meanings of scape (scapes) in English

Portuguese
escapo

Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.

escapo

(Architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column.

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Examples for "shaft"
Examples for "shaft"
1
Over the mountains in the east came the first shaft of day.
The Scouts of the Valley
2
This was the farthest point from the shaft in the entire mine.
Burnham Breaker
3
Used four times at the base of the shaft near the tower.
The Art of the Exposition / Personal Impressions of the Architec...
4
She almost didn't see it in time- averticalshaft yawning directly ahead.
White fire
5
A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
The windup girl
Usage of scapes in English
1
He has displayed face-scapes in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain.
Reuters
2
Where are on earth did all the garlic scapes come from?
The Irish Times
3
Meanwhile Gloria and Lane and everybody else just went on through their scapes.
Wastelands
4
Right after that I started nodding off in the scapes.
Wastelands
5
Many were their hair-breadth 'scapes from their pursuers-theRoyalist party.
American Scenes, and Christian Slavery / A Recent Tour of Four T...
6
The leaves are strap-shaped, stout and glaucous, and about the same length as the scapes.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
7
From its various crowns rose the scapes of bloom.
Allan and the Holy Flower
8
Then Fearing's voice dropped out, and the scapes started.
Wastelands
9
This species has dull pinkish flowers; the scapes have a few leaves; root leaves are 2in.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
10
They just kept moving in the scapes.
Wastelands
11
It starts with pickled garlic scapes, slices of the pregnant flower stalks sent spiralling skyward last summer.
The Irish Times
12
His landscapes are not too seldom hell-scapes.
Promenades of an Impressionist
13
Flowers are produced on slender scapes, 3in.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
14
This is one of that section of the Primrose family having stout scapes and compact heads of bloom.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
15
New worlds are theirs for the taking-a cornucopia of scapes to boggle and amaze and gratify the senses.
Wastelands
16
The lawyer took the trip, and duly reached Peoria after many hairbreadth 'scapes on the imminently deadly sandbar.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
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Translations for scapes
Portuguese
escapo
Scapes through the time