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English
Etymology
From semi- + erect.
Adjective
semierect (not comparable)
- Partially or somewhat erect.
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.
- (of body parts) Partially or somewhat erect.
- (of a person) Having a partially or somewhat erect penis.
Translations
partially or somewhat erect