frilled

«frilled» in Mova's school dictionary: Having a frill: a strip of cloth with folds or waves sewn… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (frilled)

meaning for a pupil

1) Having a frill: a strip of cloth with folds or waves sewn on the edge. tree →

2) (animals) Having a ruffled flap of skin, like the frilled lizard of Australia. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons the frilled lizard (or frill-necked lizard) of northern Australia opens a big umbrella-like collar around its neck to scare enemies. In clothes «frilled» means with a decorative wavy edge. Phrases: «frilled lizard», «frilled shark», «frilled collar».

examples

• The frilled lizard opened its collar and hissed. tree →
• She wore a white frilled blouse. tree →
• The frilled shark lives deep in the ocean. tree →
• The curtains had frilled edges. tree →
• When it's scared, the frilled lizard runs on its back legs. tree →

note

Also «frilly» (more informal, for clothes). From «frill».

In the corpora

• The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to look bigger, then runs away on its back legs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «frilled» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.