Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sea-pens, the main stem, the lower part of which is sunk in the mud while the upper bears the zoöids.
- noun In actinians, the main part of the body as differentiated from the upper, tentacle-bearing region or capitulum.
- noun In architecture, the shaft of a column.
- noun In botany, same as
scape , 1. - noun In entomology, the scape of an antenna.
- noun In ornithology, the scape of a feather; the whole stem or shaft, divided into the barrel or calamus and the rachis.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of cœlenterates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See 1st
scape .
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Examples
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A hair consists of a root, the part implanted in the skin; and a shaft or scapus, the portion projecting from the surface.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument 1918
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The shaft of the hair (scapus pili) consists, from within outward, of three parts, the medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument 1918
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