fringe : Idioms & Phrases

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fringe benefit

  • noun an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
    perk; perquisite.
    • a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job
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fringe bush

  • noun small bushy tree of southeastern United States having profuse clusters of white flowers
    Chionanthus virginicus.
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fringe cups

  • noun plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho
    Tellima grandiflora; false alumroot.
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Fringe tree

  • noun any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus
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  • (Bot.), a small tree (Chionanthus Virginica), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow-white flowers, with long pendulous petals.
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fringe-toed lizard

  • noun with long pointed scales around toes; of deserts of United States and Mexico
    Uma notata.
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fringed gecko

  • noun a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances
    Ptychozoon homalocephalum; flying gecko.
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fringed gentian

  • noun any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed; sometimes included in genus Gentiana
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fringed grass of parnassus

  • noun bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico
    Parnassia fimbriata.
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fringed loosestrife

  • noun of North America
    Lysimachia ciliatum.
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fringed orchid

  • noun any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
    fringed orchid.
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fringed orchis

  • noun any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
    fringed orchid.
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fringed pink

  • noun low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers
    moss pink; ground pink; Linanthus dianthiflorus.
  • noun Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins
    Dianthus supurbus.
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fringed polygala

  • noun common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
    gaywings; bird-on-the-wing; Polygala paucifolia; flowering wintergreen.
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fringed poppy mallow

  • noun perennial poppy mallow of United States southern plains states having rose-red or rose-purple flowers
    Callirhoe digitata.
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Fringing reef

  • . See Coral reefs, under Coral.
Webster 1913

green fringed orchis

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged orchis; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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Interference fringe

  • noun one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
    fringe.
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  • . (Optics) See Fringe.
Webster 1913

lunatic fringe

  • noun a political unit with extreme and fanatical views
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Mountain fringe

  • (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under Fumitory.
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prairie white-fringed orchid

  • noun of central North America; a threatened species
    Platanthera leucophea.
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prairie white-fringed orchis

  • noun orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers
    Habenaria leucophaea; prairie orchid.
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purple-fringed orchid

  • noun North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers
    purple-fringed orchid; Habenaria psycodes.
  • noun North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers
    purple-fringed orchid; Habenaria fimbriata.
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purple-fringed orchis

  • noun North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers
    purple-fringed orchid; Habenaria psycodes.
  • noun North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers
    purple-fringed orchid; Habenaria fimbriata.
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ragged-fringed orchid

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged orchis; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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white fringed orchid

  • noun bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
    white fringed orchid; Habenaria albiflora.
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white fringed orchis

  • noun bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
    white fringed orchid; Habenaria albiflora.
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