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Definition of Fringed

1. Adjective. Surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination. "A grass-fringed stream"

2. Adjective. Having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips.

3. Adjective. Having edges irregularly and finely slashed. "A laciniate leaf"

Definition of Fringed

1. a. Furnished with a fringe.

Definition of Fringed

1. Adjective. Possessing a fringe. ¹

2. Verb. (past of ''to fringe'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fringed

1. fringe [v] - See also: fringe

Medical Definition of Fringed

1. Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear, a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fringed

frilling frillings frills frilly frine fringe fringe-toed lizard fringe-y fringe benefit fringe benefits

fringe bush fringe cups fringe group fringe groups fringe tree fringed (current term) fringed gecko fringed gentian fringed loosestrife fringed orchid

fringed orchis fringed pink fringed polygala fringed poppy mallow fringeless fringelike fringent fringepod

Literary usage of Fringed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Leaflets elliptic-oblong, fringed ; rather hairy beneath. Spikes many-flowered. ... Leaves ovate, fringed ; downy and glutinous on both fides. ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Petals narrower, with the toothing obsolete and the lip less fringed. x H. ... Lip about 7 mm. long, deeply fringed ; spur 12 mm. long.—Swamp ei9. ..."

3. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"Some of the cloths were fringed at the ends, and one, a sort of scarf, about four feet long, and twenty inches wide, was fringed at both ends. ..."

4. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"In sandy locations the whole plant dries in a few weeks, and, faded to a pale fringed Brome-grass Bromus .:"..;..i fringed ..."

5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1886)
"Head, thorax and base, and apex of abdomen black ; abdomen clothed with bright scarlet pubescence I «Tini mi lu. Abdominal segmenta fringed at apex with ..."

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