semierectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.