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fringent

fringent adjective: encircling like a fringe; bordering.

Adjective

fringent (not comparable)

  1. Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
    • [W]hen a shower of meteors / Cross the orbit of the earth, / And, lit by fringent air, / Blaze near and far, / Mortals deem the planets bright / Have slipped their sacred bars, / And the lone seaman all the night / Sails, astonished, amid stars.1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, part II (The Dæmonic and the Celestial Love), page 168
    • […] the fringent saltmarshes and wetlands […]2011, Oscar Grillo, Gianfranco Venora, Ecosystems Biodiversity, page 38

Questions about fringent

What does fringent mean?
Fringent means encircling like a fringe; bordering.
What part of speech is fringent?
Fringent is an adjective.

Words near fringent in the dictionary

  1. fringeheads
  2. fringeless
  3. fringelet
  4. fringelets
  5. fringelike
  6. fringent
  7. fringepod
  8. fringepods
  9. fringer
  10. fringers
  11. fringes

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