semierect en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + erect.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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 disproportion between these limbs is increased by his walking on his knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do.
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:
- (not-comparable, of a person) Having a partially or somewhat erect penis.
Translations (7)
fr semi-érigé (of body parts) · fr semi-dressé (of body parts) · fr en semi-érection (of body parts) · fr semi-dressé (partially or somewhat erect) · fr en semi-érection (of a person) · fr semi-érigé (partially or somewhat erect) · ka ნახევრად ამდგარი (of body parts)