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UK
/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
- 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.
- The crowd made way for the shepherd and his following, and as they drew near to the raised platform the two white cats, who were Edred and Elfrida, looked up and saw in the middle and biggest chair a splendid, dark-faced man in a kind of fringed turban with two long feathers in it, and in the two chairs to right and left of him, clothed in beautiful embroidered stuffs, with shining collars of jewels about their necks, Father and Uncle Jim! The House of Arden
