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semierect

semierect adjective: partially or somewhat erect.

Adjective

semierect (not comparable)

  1. Partially or somewhat erect.
    • It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a Mias making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks deliberately along some of the larger branches in the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs cause him naturally to assume; and the...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 91
    • Elytra a little longer than wide conjointly, finely striate, intervals with a row of moderately coarse elongate punctures each bearing a semierect hair, surface subgranularly alutaceous.1877, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume VI, page 286
  2. Partially or somewhat erect.
  3. Having a partially or somewhat erect penis.

Origin of semierect

From semi- + erect.

Questions about semierect

What does semierect mean?
Semierect means partially or somewhat erect.
What part of speech is semierect?
Semierect is an adjective.

Words near semierect in the dictionary

  1. semiepiphytes
  2. semiepiphytic
  3. semiepisodic
  4. semiequally
  5. semiequitant
  6. semierect
  7. semierection
  8. semierections
  9. semierotic
  10. semiessential
  11. semievergreen

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