frill
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1. frill - Noun
2. frill - Verb
Meaning
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
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Andrew Farke had in 2006 stressed that, apart from the frill, no systematic differences could be found between Torosaurus and Triceratops.
Functions of the horns and frill Front view of skull with a prominent epoccipital fringe, Houston Museum of Natural Science There has been much speculation over the functions of Triceratops' head adornments.
Scannella's Triceratops specimen with a hole on its frill, they argued, could represent a diseased or malformed individual rather than a transitional stage between an immature Triceratops and mature Torosaurus form.
It was around this time that a frill was added around Kermit's neck to make him more frog-like.
In fact, it fits well into the ceratopsine subfamily, apart from its one feature of a shortened frill.
The pygmies asserted it was not a regular rhinoceros, as it had more than one horn (six horns on the frill in one eyewitness account), and that the father of one of the senior members of the community had killed one with a spear a number of years ago.