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/fɹˈɪndʒd/
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ADJECTIVE
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having edges irregularly and finely slashed
a laciniate leaf - having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips
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surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination
a large suburban community...fringed by an industrial area
a grass-fringed stream
How To Use fringed In A Sentence
- From Kaiteriteri, cruise the protected waters of the Astrolabe Roadstead past idyllic beaches fringed by lush native forest to the golden expanse of Anchorage Bay (30-45 mins).
- Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
- What is the etiquette when the eyes in question are big, and brown, and fringed with generous dark lashes?
- The oral shield is oval to rounded pentagonal with the distal edge fringed by granules or low spinelets.
- Eventually we arrived at a black sand bay fringed with jungle.
- The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
- Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
- The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
- The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here. Rural Hours
- Welcome to Brian Head, a sweet, one-slope resort located far from the madding boarders and fur-fringed fashionistas.