semierect

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ erect.

Adjective

semierect (not comparable)

  1. Partially or somewhat erect.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 91:
      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.
    • 1877, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume VI, page 286:
      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.
  2. (of body parts) Partially or somewhat erect.
  3. (of a person) Having a partially or somewhat erect penis.

Translations

of body parts
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