Peduncle vs Scape - What's the difference?
peduncle | scape |
(botany) The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.
(botany) A short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure.
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(anatomy) A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
(anatomy) In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna.
(anatomy) A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
(zoology) A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).
(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
the lowest part of an insect's antenna
(architecture) the shaft of a column
(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
(archaic) to escape
*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
*:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
*:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
*:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
*:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .
(archaic) escape
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
* Milton
(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
In botany terms the difference between peduncle and scape
is that peduncle is a short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure while scape is a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.As a verb scape is
to escape.peduncle
English
Noun
(en noun)- On fertilization, the archegonia form obyriform calyptrae that are distinctly narrowed at base to form a stalk or peduncle ; this does not occur in other Hepaticae.
scape
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)Verb
(scap)Noun
(en noun)- I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- (Donne)
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- (Shakespeare)