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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#m1)

2) (animals) Having a ruffled flap of skin, like the frilled lizard of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#x1)
- She wore a white frilled blouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#x2)
- The frilled shark lives deep in the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#x3)
- The curtains had frilled edges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#x4)
- When it's scared, the frilled lizard runs on its back legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/#x5)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frilled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.