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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
noun (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column

From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

Ferguson himself was bound to be the scape goat. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
"he shall bear their sins:" Hee is the Scape Goat. — Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping? — Hamlet, William Shakespeare

flower stalk

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